Insight/Outlook

Ethical, legal, and social considerations in conducting the Human Microbiome Project

• • ¹ Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030, USA;
  • ² Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, New York 10032, USA;
  • ³ Department of Family Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine Houston, Texas 77098, USA;
  • ⁴ Center for Health Care Ethics, Saint Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri, 63103 USA;
  • ⁵ Departments of Pathology, Pediatrics, Molecular Virology & Microbiology, and Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030, USA;
  • ⁶ Departments of Pathology and Pediatrics, Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston, Texas 77030, USA
  • 7 Corresponding author. E-mail [email protected]; fax (713) 798-5678.