ACMG Developing Decision Support Tools for Non-Geneticist Docs for Secondary Findings, NIPT

Oct 31, 2017

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This article has been updated to note that 16,500 babies in the US are identified with a rare condition through newborn screening.

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – The American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics (ACMG) is developing new clinical decision support tools to help doctors discuss with patients incidental findings from exome and genome sequencing, as well as results of non-invasive prenatal testing, and guide them through follow-up evaluations.

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