Reporting Incidental Findings in Medical Sequencing Studies: ACMG recommendations for reporting of incidental findings in clinical exome and genome sequencing

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Reporting Incidental Findings in Medical Sequencing Studies

ACMG recommendations for reporting of incidental findings in clinical exome and genome sequencing [PDF 342.83 KB]
Robert C. Green, Jonathan S. Berg, Wayne W. Grody, et al. ACMG

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Uninformed consent, revisited, by Erika Check Hayden, The Last Word on Nothing, Mar 21

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The genetic information you didn't ask for, the Take Away Blog, Mar 25

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