"The attitudes vary between countries, there are numerous texts for various types of biobanks, the same texts raise different interpretations in different institutions, there are new ethical opinions expressed, and mainly the novelty of questions raised by the uses of samples that are possible today, especially in genetics, and were not foreseeable at the time of sampling make the field difficult in practice."
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Cambon-Thomsen, Rial-Sebbag, "Ethical aspects of biological sample banks", Rev Epidemiol Sante Publique, 2003 Feb; 51(1 Pt 2):101-10.
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