Case Studies of Existing Human Tissue Repositories "Best Practices" for a Biospecimen Resource for the Genomic and Proteomic Era

• Main Author: Eiseman, Elisa (auth)
• Other Authors: Bloom, Gabrielle (auth), Brower, Jennifer (auth), Clancy, Noreen (auth), Olmsted, Stuart S. (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: RAND Corporation 2003
• Subjects: Medicolegal issues; Technology: general issues; Health Sciences; Technology
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Case studies of twelve existing human biospecimen repositories performed to evaluate their utility for genomics- and proteomics-based cancer research and to identify "best practices" in collection, processing, annotation, storage, privacy, ethical concerns, informed consent, business plans...