Ethics of DNA research on human remains: Five globally applicable guidelines

We are a group of archaeologists, anthropologists, curators and geneticists representing diverse global communities and 31 countries. All of us met in a virtual workshop dedicated to ethics in ancient DNA research held in November 2020. There was widespread agreement that globally applicable ethical...

• Main Authors: Alpaslan Roodenberg, Songül, Anthony, David, Babiker, Hiba, Bánffy, Eszter, Booth, Thomas, Capone, Patricia, Deshpande Mukherjee, Arati, Eisenmann, Stefanie, Fehren Schmitz, Lars, Frachetti, Michael, Fujita, Ricardo, Frieman, Catherine J., Fu, Qiaomei, Gibbon, Victoria, Haak, Wolfgang, Hajdinjak, Mateja, Hofmann, Kerstin P., Holguin, Brian, Inomata, Takeshi, Kanzawa Kiriyama, Hideaki, Keegan, William, Kelso, Janet, Krause, Johannes, Kumaresan, Ganesan, Kusimba, Chapurukha, Kusimba, Sibel, Lalueza Fox, Carles, Llamas, Bastien, MacEachern, Scott, Mallick, Swapan, Matsumura, Hirofumi, Morales Arce, Ana Y., Motuzaite Matuzeviciute, Giedre, Mushrif Tripathy, Veena, Nakatsuka, Nathan, Nores, Rodrigo, Ogola, Christine, Okumura, Mercedes, Patterson, Nick, Pinhasi, Ron, Prasad, Samayamantri P. R., Prendergast, Mary E., Punzo, Jose Luis, Reich, David, Sawafuji, Rikai, Sawchuk, Elizabeth, Schiffels, Stephan, Sedig, Jakob, Shnaider, Svetlana, Sirak, Kendra, Skoglund, Pontus, Slon, Viviane, Snow, Meradeth, Soressi, Marie, Spriggs, Matthew, Stockhammer, Philipp W., Szécsényi Nagy, Anna, Thangaraj, Kumarasamy, Tiesler, Vera, Tobler, Ray, Wang, Chuan Chao, Warinner, Christina, Yasawardene, Surangi, Zahir, Muhammad
• Format: info:eu-repo/semantics/article
• Language: eng
• Published: Nature Publishing Group 2021
• Subjects: ETHICS; ANCIENT DNA; GUIDELINES; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/6.1; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/6; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/6.5
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11336/170561; https://suquia.ffyh.unc.edu.ar/handle/suquia/175295