Size of the direct-to-consumer genomic testing market

Genetics in Medicine

Volumn 12, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 594-

  Wright, Caroline F ^a   Gregory Jones, Shelley ^a  

^a PHG FOUNDATION   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

common disease market; consumer genomics; DTC; genetic susceptibility testing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETIC SERVICE; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; MARKET;

CONSUMER ADVOCACY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETIC PRIVACY; GENETIC TESTING; GENOME, HUMAN; GENOMICS; HUMANS; MARKETING OF HEALTH SERVICES;

EID: 77957225686     PISSN: 10983600     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/GIM.0b013e3181ead743     Document Type: Article

References (16)

1. Evans JP, Green RC. Direct to consumer genetic testing: avoiding a culture war. Genet Med 2009;11:568-569.
2. Foster MW, Mulvihill JJ, Sharp RR. Evaluating the utility of personal genomic information. Genet Med 2009;11:570-574.
3. Grosse SD, McBride CM, Evans JP, Khoury MJ. Personal utility and genomic information: look before you leap. Genet Med 2009;11:575-576.
4. Gurwitz D, Bregman-Eschet Y. Personal genomics services: whose genomes? Eur J Hum Genet 2009;17:883-889.
5. Khoury MJ, McBride CM, Schully SD, et al. The Scientific Foundation for Personal Genomics: recommendations from a National Institutes of Health- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Multidisciplinary Workshop. Genet Med 2009;11:559-567.
6. McGuire AL, Burke W. An unwelcome side effect of direct-to-consumer personal genome testing: raiding the medical commons. JAMA 2008;300: 2669-2671.
7. Mihaescu R, van Hoek M, Sijbrands EJG, et al. Evaluation of risk prediction updates from commercial genome-wide scans. Genet Med 2009;11:588-594.
8. Offit K. Genomic profiles for disease risk: predictive or premature? JAMA 2008;299:1353-1355. (Pubitemid 351439082)
9. Patch C, Sequeiros J, Cornel MC. Genetic horoscopes: is it all in the genes? Points for regulatory control of direct-to-consumer genetic testing. Eur J Hum Genet 2009;17:857-859.
10. Prainsack B, Reardon J, Hindmarsh R, Gottweis H, Naue U, Lunshof JE. Personal genomes: misdirected precaution. Nature 2008;456:34-35.
11. McGuire AL, Diaz CM, Wang T, Hilsenbeck SG. Social networkers' attitudes toward direct-to-consumer personal genome testing. Am J Bioeth 2009;9:3-10.
12. Kolor K, Liu T, St.Pierre J, Khoury MJ. Health care provider and consumer awareness, perceptions, and use of direct-to-consumer personal genomic tests, United States, 2008. Genet Med 2009;11:595.
13. 2009 by the numbers. Nat Med 2009;15:1351-1352.
14. Pollack A. Consumers slow to embrace the age of genomics. The New York Times, March 19, 2010:201.
15. Schickedanz AD, Herdman RC. Direct-to-consumer genetic testing: the need to get retail genomics right. Clin Pharmacol Ther 2009;86:17-20.
16. Balaji S. Srinivasan, Jason F, Patterson AS, et al. A universal carrier test for the long tail of Mendelian disease. Nature Precedings 2010;hdl:10101/npre. 2010.4192.1.