In Japan, genetic counseling has not yet taken root as a common clinical practice, but genetic testing and genetic research for human diseases have become increasingly popular. Along with this trend, ...

Background: To fully assess predictive genetic testing programs, it is important to assess outcomes over periods of time longer than the 1-year follow-up reported in the literature. Methods: We ...

Traditional testing, though valuable, is often reactive and identifies quality issues only after they have occurred. This can lead to project delays and financial and reputational losses. In fact, ...

One of the central arguments given to resist testing currently healthy, asymptomatic children for adult-onset diseases is that they may be psychologically harmed by the knowledge gained from such ...

Patients who, perhaps unbeknownst to their health care providers, are in need of genetic testing for rare undiagnosed diseases can be identified en masse based on routine information in electronic ...

Peter Salgo, MD, and John L. Fox, MD, MHA, discuss the definition of predictive value of diagnostic testing in cancer and describe the value of the genomic assays that are currently available in ...