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Spousal and Kinship Co-Authorship Should be Declared to Avoid Conflicts of Interest

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  1. Independent researcher, P. O. Box 7, Ikenobe 3011-2, Kagawa-ken, 761-0799, Japan

    Jaime A. Teixeira da Silva

  2. Departmento de Biología Molecular y Genómica, Centro Universitario de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad de Guadalajara, Guadalajara, Mexico

    Horacio Rivera

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Teixeira da Silva, J.A., Rivera, H. Spousal and Kinship Co-Authorship Should be Declared to Avoid Conflicts of Interest. Bioethical Inquiry 18, 379–381 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11673-021-10123-1

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