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Personalized genomic testing (PGT) reporting preferences among over 2,500 individuals and healthcare providers (HCPs): Healthy individuals deem medical risk factors as the most important reason to pursue genetic testing

Session:
#408
Date:
Friday, Apr 13, 2018 10:30am – 12:00pm
Conference:
ACMG 2018
Authors:
Brigette Tippin Davis, Kelly Farwell Hagman, Layla Mowlavi, Melissa Para, Sebastien Marcq, Stephany Tandy-Connor,
  • Study to understand motivations, preferences for results and concerns about personalized genomic testing among 2,500 healthy individuals and HCPs
  • We found that > 47% of  healthy individuals are generally concerned about their health and interested in genomic testing.
  • 85% of healthy individuals ranked personal medical risks for disease (cancer, cardio, etc)  as the most important category of interest.
  • >90% of HCPs ranked carriers status and personal medical risks as the primary reasons for testing among their patients.
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