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PHG: UK 100K Genomes Project Should Return 'Actionable' Findings

April 10, 2013

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By a GenomeWeb staff reporter

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – The Public Health Genomics Foundation wants the UK government to consider how it will deal with the incidental genetic findings it discovers during the course of its massive human genome sequencing project.
The UK's National Health Service is heading a multisite, national effort to conduct full genome sequences of 100,000 citizens with cancer and rare and inherited diseases, and PHG Foundation expects that the partners will need a policy in place for whether they will or will not return information on disease-linked genetic variants to the donors.
Broadly, PHG wants the NHS to develop a strong consent policy and to return these results in cases when they are clinically actionable.
It will be important for the 100,000 Genome Project (100kGP) partners to make sure that participants know that there are differences between the use of samples and genome sequencing for clinical and for research purposes, PHG said in a report Tuesday........