After the tri-ministerial guideline for human genetic/genomic research (Ethics guidelines for human genome/genetic analytical research) was revised in 2013, the new ethical guideline (Ethical Guidelines for medical and health research involving human subjects) was introduced in 2014. Human genetic researchers have to refer these two ethical guidelines in their research activities. In this paper, the main points of these changes, especially concerning collections and distributions of human biological samples by a banking institution, are summarized.
