Towards a European consensus for reporting incidental findings during clinical NGS testing.

ABSTRACT: In 2013, the American College of Medical Genetics (ACMG) examined the issue of incidental findings in whole exome and whole genome sequencing, and introduced recommendations to search for, evaluate and report medically actionable variants in a set of 56 genes. At a debate held during the 2014 European Society for Human Genetics Conference (ESHG) in Milan, Italy, the first author of that paper presented this view in a debate session that did not end with a conclusive vote from the mainly European audience for or against reporting back actionable incidental findings. In this meeting report, we elaborate on the discussions held during a special meeting hosted at the ESHG in 2013 from posing the question 'How to reach a (European) consensus on reporting incidental findings and unclassified var

SUBMITTER: Hehir-Kwa JY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4795187 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature