The direct-to-consumer genetic testing fog

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Last Posted: May 27, 2017

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• The direct-to-consumer genetic testing fog  
  T Caulfield, Policy Options, May 2017
• Utilization of Genetic Counseling after Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Testing: Findings from the Impact of Personal Genomics (PGen) Study.  
  Koeller Diane R et al. Journal of genetic counseling 2017 May
• How are Direct-to-Consumer and Medical-Grade Genetic Tests Different?  
  D Babu, Ambry Genetics, May 18, 2017
• What You May Learn by At-Home Genetic Testing - Some consumers bypass the medical system to obtain this personal information. But it has limits. 
  L Esposito, US News, May 19, 2017
• Genomic Sequencing for the Healthy Individual?: Think Smaller  
  JAMA Podcast, May 9, 2017
• Diet and exercise changes following direct-to-consumer personal genomic testing  
  DE Nielsen et al, BMC Medical Genomics, May 2, 2017
• Direct-to-consumer genetic tests are a ‘turning point’ for precision medicine, analysts say  
  E Sweeney, Fierce Healthcare, May 1, 2017
• Dear Jeanie: Whole Genome Sequencing  
  NSGC Blog post, April 2017
• Using Next-Generation Sequencing to Explore Genetics and Race in the High School Classroom.  
  Yang Xinmiao et al. CBE life sciences education 2017 16(2)
• Direct to Consumer Genetic Testing: Think Before You Spit, 2017 Edition!
  MJ Khoury, CDC Blog Post, April 18, 2017
• Psychological and behavioural impact of returning personal results from whole-genome sequencing: the HealthSeq project.  
  Sanderson Saskia C et al. European journal of human genetics : EJHG 2017 Feb 25(3) 280-292
• Genetic Counselors and You Webinar Series: Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Tests  
  My genecounsel, April 17, 2017
• F.D.A. Will Allow 23andMe to Sell Genetic Tests for Disease Risk to Consumers  
  G Kolata, New York Times, April 2017
• You Look Good in Those Genes- Genetic tests can spell out your risk of getting certain diseases. But could that info do more harm than good?  
  Research 2 Reality, April 13, 2017
• Before you send your spit to 23andMe, what you need to know  
  S Begley, Stat News, April 7, 2017
• FDA approves sale of genetic tests for risk of Alzheimer’s and other diseases  
  M. Keshavan, StatNews, April 6, 2017

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