Ethics complicate clinical interpretation & reporting of human genome sequence results

(Mary Ann Liebert, Inc./Genetic Engineering News) Medical use of a patient's genomic sequence information can improve diagnostic capabilities and enable personalized therapies, but technical and practical barriers to understanding the clinical implications of sequence data and interpreting them for patients are contributing to ongoing ethical concerns.

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