Henrietta lacks-gene-sharing family members

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Please read this linked article on Henrietta Lacks and discuss the following:

1. Should we require consent before anyone's genome is sequenced and published?

2. What control should gene-sharing family members have?

3. As some scientists claimed at the time that scientists in general cannot infer anything from Henrietta Lacks genome or of her descendants from the data generated in the earlier studies, What is your thought on this after reading the article?

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