“We’ve opened pandora’s box, haven’t we?” clinical geneticists’ views on ethical aspects of genomic testing in neonatal intensive care
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/bjmg-2022-0013 | Journal eISSN: 2199-5761
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Published on: Mar 1, 2023
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