Taking after a parent: Phenotypic resemblance and the professional familialisation of genomics.

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This article draws on 2 years' worth of ethnographic observation of team meetings to explore decision-making in an NHS clinical genomics service. The focus of discussions was on ambiguous genomic results known as VUS or Variants of Uncertain Significance, which may be pathogenic but which also may turn out to be benign. In examining decision-making around such results, we note how, in contrast to much policy and...

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