Reporting practices for variants of uncertain significance from next generation sequencing technologies

European Journal of Medical Genetics

Volumn 60, Issue 10, 2017, Pages 553-558

  Vears, Danya F ^a,b   Sénécal, Karine ^c   Borry, Pascal ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b KU Leuven   (Belgium)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bioethics; Diagnostic; Genetic testing; Genomic sequencing; VOUS; VUS

Indexed keywords

AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND; BIOETHICS; CANADA; CLASSIFICATION; EUROPE; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; GENETIC SCREENING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERVIEW; LABORATORY PERSONNEL; MALE; NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING; PHENOTYPE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; THINKING; DNA SEQUENCE; ETHICS; GENETICS; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; MANDATORY REPORTING; MUTATION; RESEARCH; STANDARDS;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; AUSTRALASIA; CANADA; EUROPE; GENETIC TESTING; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HUMANS; MANDATORY REPORTING; MUTATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; RESEARCH REPORT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 85026745903     PISSN: 17697212     EISSN: 18780849     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejmg.2017.07.016     Document Type: Article

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