Publication of family tree information in medical articles can violate patient privacy.

 

References: 

Botkin, J.R., et al. 1998. Privacy and confidentiality in the publication of pedigrees: A survey of investigators and biomedical journals. Journal of the American Medical Association 279(June 10):1808.

 

Sources:

Jeffrey R. Botkin
University of Utah
Department of Pediatrics
Primary Children's Medical Center
100 North Medical Drive
Salt Lake City, UT 84113