secondary findings
Early IDENTIFY Trial Results Suggest Half of Women With Non-Reportable NIPT Result Have Cancer
At the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics annual meeting, NICHD Director Diana Bianchi reported that whole-body MRI was the best follow-up test to confirm or rule out cancer.
ACMG Updates Gene List for Labs Reporting Clinical Sequencing Secondary Findings
The list, which ACMG plans to now update annually, currently includes 73 genes for which it recommends laboratories report findings.
ESHG, ACMG Differ Starkly in Recommendations for Reporting Secondary Findings From Genomic Tests
During a session at the ASHG 2020 virtual meeting, representatives from both organizations laid out the reasons for their contrasting guidelines.
The national project has developed infrastructure for implementing genomics into clinical care and is now studying clinical utility and cost effectiveness.
The findings, published last week, have prompted Belgian medical genetics centers to routinely report maternal incidental findings from NIPT.