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and related projects are publicly funded, the result will benefit
private industry. To what extent is this outcome satisfactory?

Some additional points:

Apart from the guidelines outlined in this document, BMRC should form
specific committees with relevant experts and specified terms of references
(TORs) in dealing with issues not detailed in this document or those
arising from its content from their socio-cultural medical, and legal
perspectives.

When constructing the informed consent forms, every effort must be made
to minimize the effects of general and health-related illiteracy of the
common people of Bangladesh on t heir understanding of what would be
done on them and with the research materials or information derived from
them.

Education both professional and public has to be taken “as the key to
ethical genetics service” (Review of ethical issues in medical genetics
2003).

It any research proposal requires periodic review to decide whether the
research is being conducted properly and whether it should be
discontinued, the proposal should include provision for periodic review.

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