Guest post: Time to bring human genome sequencing into the clinic
Gholson Lyon is a physician-scientist currently working at the Utah Foundation for Biomedical Research and the Center for Applied Genomics at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. He will be starting as an assistant professor in human genetics at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory next month. I asked him to write this guest post to provide some personal context to his thought-provoking commentary in Nature (subscription required) on returning genetic findings to research subjects. [DM].
I have just published in
Nature a
commentary
discussing the need to bring exome and genome sequencing into the
clinical arena, so that these data are generated with the same rigorous
clinical standards as for any other clinical test. This way, we can then
easily return at least medically actionable results to research
participants. In this day and age of consumer and patient empowerment, I
can also see eventually returning all data, including the raw data, to
any interested participants, as this can then promote crowd-sourcing for
data analysis, with research participants controlling and promoting the
relative privacy of and analysis of their own data......
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