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Received: 29 June 2018

Accepted: 28 October 2018

First Online: 14 November 2018

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: Sabina Semiz, PhD, is a Professor in Genetics and Bioengineering at the International University of Sarajevo (IUS). She is the Head of the Bosnia and Herzegovina Unit of the UNESCO Chair in Bioethics, Chair of the Cambridge Bioethics Education Network Working Group, and a member of the Management Committee of the CHIP ME COST Action IS1303 “Citizen’s Health through public-private Initiatives: Public health, Market and Ethical perspectives.” Matthias Wjst, PhD, and Oliver Feeney, PhD, (Researcher in Political Theory and Bioethics at the Centre of Bioethical Research and Analysis) are members of the Management Committee and Working Group 2 and Working Group 3 of the CHIP ME COST Action IS1303. Faruk Berat Akcesme, PhD, and Betul Akcesme, PhD, were Assistant Professors at the Genetics and Bioengineering Program at FENS, and they recently joined the Faculty of Medicine, University of Health Sciences, Istanbul, Turkey. Lejla Mahmutovic and Muhamed Adilovic are PhD students, while Camil Durakovic, Aida Maric, and Nour Hamad were master students at the IUS. Aida Maric recently started her PhD program at the Plant Biotechnology Department, Faculty of Pharmacy and Food Sciences, at the University of Barcelona, Spain.

: The study was approved by the Ethical Committee of the International University of Sarajevo (protocol number: IUS-REC-01-575/2017). Each participant was informed of the objectives of the study and informed consent was obtained from all participants.

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: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

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