Defining categories of actionability for secondary findings in next-generation sequencing

Journal of Medical Ethics

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2017, Pages 346-349

  Moret, Celine ^a   Mauron, Alex ^a   Fokstuen, Siv ^b   Makrythanasis, Periklis ^a,b   Hurst, Samia A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETHICS; GENETIC DISORDER; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETIC SCREENING; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HUMAN; INCIDENTAL FINDING; NOMENCLATURE; REPRODUCIBILITY;

GENETIC DISEASES, INBORN; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETIC TESTING; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HUMANS; INCIDENTAL FINDINGS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC;

EID: 85010469688     PISSN: 03066800     EISSN: 14734257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/medethics-2016-103677     Document Type: Article

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