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By the way: The incidental benefit of exome sequencing to enable life-saving intervention via secondary findings

Date:
Friday, Apr 5, 2019 10:30am – 12:00pm
Conference:
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Authors:
Christina L. Alamillo, Jennifer Huang, Kelly Farwell Hagman, Sha Tang, Zöe Powis
  • Approximately 2.8% of patients who chose to receive secondary findings results had a positive finding.
  • Secondary findings in BRCA1 and BRCA2 made up a large proportion of the positive findings, and the majority of BRCA1/2 findings were identified in males under the age of 18.
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