Patient-focused pathogen genetic counselling—has the time come?

Angeline S. Ferdinand*, Jane S. Hocking, Justin T. Denholm, Benjamin P. Howden, Deborah A. Williamson*

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Ensuring accordance with principles of healthcare ethics requires improved communication of pathogen genomic data. This could include educating healthcare professionals in communicating pathogen genomic information to individuals, developing ethical frameworks for reporting pathogen genomic results to individuals, responsible media reporting guidelines, and counselling for individuals (‘pathogen genetic counselling’).

Original languageEnglish
Article number178
JournalGenome medicine
Volume13
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 8 Nov 2021

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