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Science 14 November 2008:
Vol. 322. no. 5904, pp. 1054 - 1055
DOI: 10.1126/science.1164100
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Policy Forum

RESEARCH ETHICS:
Certificates of Confidentiality and Compelled Disclosure of Data

Laura M. Beskow,1,2* Lauren Dame,2,3 E. Jane Costello4

A recent court case suggests that the privacy of research subjects may not be fully protected by Certificates of Confidentiality.

1Duke Translational Medicine Institute, Duke University, Durham, NC 27710, USA.

2Duke Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA.

3Duke University School of Law, Durham, NC, 27708, USA.

4Developmental Epidemiology Program, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA.

*Author for correspondence. E-mail: laura.beskow{at}duke.edu

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