Doctors Should Tell Patients About Some, But Not All, Unexpected Genetic Findings
Views - MIT Technology Review 2013-03-28
Summary:
A professional medical geneticists group recommends that certain genetic risk factors be examined in all medical DNA sequence tests.
On Thursday, the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics recommended that doctors tell patients about certain genetic disease risks if they accidentally find them when exploring a patient’s genome for another reason. However, the group does not recommend that doctors tell patients about all incidental findings.