2014 年 21 巻 1 号 p. 9-15
Japanese ethical guidelines for human genome/gene analysis research were revised on February, 2013. This amendment was focused on corresponding devastating progress of methodology of gene analysis and the changes in way and concept of genome research. I participated in the review committee of the amendment as a president of Council for Protection of Individual Genetic Information. Here, I mention the outline of the revision with personal comments.