New Guidelines: Labs Should Report Incidental Genetic Risk by Melissa Healy. The Los Angles Times. March 21, 2013.
Laboratories ordered by physicians to perform genomic sequencing for cancer or cardiac disease now have guidelines for reporting what they may incidentally discover. The guidelines assert that "when a known genetic variation is clearly linked to heightened disease risk, when symptoms may not become evident for years, and when knowledge of that risk could prompt potentially life-saving steps, a genetic lab has a duty to report them to a physician."
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