Pilot Study of Return of Genetic Results to Patients in Adult Nephrology.

ABSTRACT:

Background and objectives

Actionable genetic findings have implications for care of patients with kidney disease, and genetic testing is an emerging tool in nephrology practice. However, there are scarce data regarding best practices for return of results and clinical application of actionable genetic findings for kidney patients.

Design, setting, participants, & measurements

We developed a return of results workflow in collaborations with clinicians for the retrospective recontact of adult nephrology patients who had been recruited into a biobank research study for exome sequencing and were identified to have medically actionable genetic findings.

Results

Using this workflow, we attempted to recontact a diverse pilot cohort of 104 nephrology research participants wit

SUBMITTER: Nestor JG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7269209 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature