Incidental findings in clinical genomics: a clarification

American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics

Genetics in Medicine

(2013)

doi:10.1038/gim.2013.82

Received: 02 May 2013
Accepted: 02 May 2013
Published online: 04 July 2013

On 22 March 2013, the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics (ACMG) released a practice statement entitled “ACMG recommendations for reporting of incidental findings in clinical exome and genome sequencing.”¹ We firmly stated our view that there is a subset of conditions/genes/variants for which there is the significant potential…