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Policy ForumResearch Ethics:Children and Population BiobanksPopulation biobanks, which store and distribute human DNA, cell lines, and tissue samples collected from large cohorts, are being established and are growing in size (1). These population biobanks are often funded wholly or in part by governments and are envisaged as novel resources for national and international biomedical research programs. Such programs include studies on associations between genotypes, environmental exposure measures, socioeconomic parameters, and phenotypes of human health and disease.
1 National Laboratory for the Genetics of Israeli Populations, Department of Human Molecular Genetics and Biochemistry, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, 69978, Israel. * Author for correspondence. E-mail: gurwitz{at}post.tau.ac.il
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Science. ISSN 0036-8075 (print), 1095-9203 (online)