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Incidental medical information in whole-exome sequencing.
Pediatrics - 1 Jun 2012
Solomon Benjamin D, Hadley Donald W, Pineda-Alvarez Daniel E, Kamat Aparna, Teer Jamie K, Cherukuri Praveen F, Hansen Nancy F, Cruz Pedro, Young Alice C, Berkman Benjamin E, Chandrasekharappa Settara C, Mullikin James C
Abstract excerpt
Genomic technologies, such as whole-exome sequencing, are a powerful tool in genetic research. Such testing yields a great deal of incidental medical information, or medical information not related to the primary research target. We describe the management of incidental medical information derived from whole-exome sequencing in the research context. We performed whole-exome sequencing on a monozygotic twin pair...
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