genetic counseling

  • Read more: Genetic counselors, genetic interpreters, and conflicting interests
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    Genetic counselors, genetic interpreters, and conflicting interests

    By Katie Stoll, Amanda Mackison, Megan Allyse, and Marsha Michie The booming genetic testing industry has created many new job opportunities for genetic counselors. Within commercial laboratories, genetic counselors work in sales and marketing, variant interpretation, as “medical science liaisons” to clinicians, and providing direct patient care. Although the communication skills and genetics expertise of…

  • Read more: Considering stakeholders in policy around secondary findings in genomics
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    Considering stakeholders in policy around secondary findings in genomics

    By Michael Mackley It took nearly thirteen years and an army of scientists to generate the first sequence of the human genome. Now, patients around the world are having their genomes sequenced every day. Since the first sequence was unveiled in 2003, the cost of whole-genome sequencing (WGS) has dropped from almost $1 billion to less…