Mollie A. Minear, Cristina Kapustij, Kaeleen Boden, Subhashini Chandrasekharan and Robert Cook-Deegan
Mollie A. Minear
Duke University
Cristina Kapustij
Two Pore Guys, Inc.
Kaeleen Boden
Case Western Univ. and Duke Univ. Inst. for Genome Sciences & Policy
Subhashini Chandrasekharan
Duke University
Robert Cook-Deegan
Duke University
From 2006-2010, Duke University’s Center for Public Genomics prepared eight case studies examining the effects of gene patent licensing practices on clinical access to genetic testing for ten clinical conditions. One of these case studies focused on the successful licensing practices employed by the University of Michigan and the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto for patents covering the CFTR gene and its ΔF508 mutation that causes a majority of cystic fibrosis cases.
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