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The expansion of newborn screening: is reproductive benefit an appropriate pursuit?

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  1. Department of Health Policy, Faculty of Medicine, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    Yvonne Bombard, Fiona A. Miller & Robin Z. Hayeems

  2. Faculty of Medicine (Department of Human Genetics), Centre of Genomics and Policy, McGill University, Montréal, Québec, Canada

    Denise Avard & Bartha M. Knoppers

  3. Department of Clinical Genetics/EMGO Institute for Health and Care Research, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Martina C. Cornel

  4. Centre for Society and Genomics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

    Martina C. Cornel

  5. Reseach Fund Flanders, Centre for Biomedical Ethics and Law, Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven, Belgium

    Pascal Borry

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Bombard, Y., Miller, F., Hayeems, R. et al. The expansion of newborn screening: is reproductive benefit an appropriate pursuit?. Nat Rev Genet 10, 666–667 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/nrg2666

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