Clinical Genetics Experts Offer Advice for Implementing Diagnostic Exome, Genome Sequencing

Jun 03, 2016

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NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – In an effort to provide guidance to the growing number of institutions that are implementing clinical exome and genome sequencing for inherited disease diagnosis, a group of clinical genetics experts from the US and Canada has developed a set of recommendations, taking into account advice and experience from physicians, lab workers, scientists, genetic counselors, and — last but not least — patients and their families.

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