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for each -- for the particular use of the tissue envisioned
is very powerful.
So I think there is not a distancing -- we are
looking at the -- we are looking at cases in which the
researcher for a variety of reasons may not need that kind
of close contact and may want to use either large amounts
of tissue or tissue that is with relatively small amounts
of additional information. So there are other ways of
doing it. There need be no necessary link between this
proposal and a further distancing between researchers and
subjects in those kinds of cases where distancing would be
inappropriate.
DR. COX: Just one quick follow-up point. I
quite agree with that except I am basing my comments
particularly with my experience as a geneticist because
genetics research -- in fact, we are the Genetics
Subcommittee -- I am not saying that genetics, you know, is
inherently different from other types of medical
information but genetics is only as good as the definition
of the phenotype hooked up with the genotype.
So, I think, at one sort of fairly extreme end
of researchers that need to have close relationship with
the phenotype I think the geneticists are very much on that
one end. So that is sort of why I am making my comments.