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RSS FeedsShould all babies have their genomes sequenced?
(PHYSorg.com Medicine & Health)

 
 

16 august 2018 00:12:06

 
Should all babies have their genomes sequenced?
(PHYSorg.com Medicine & Health)
 


As the cost of genome sequencing decreases, researchers and clinicians are debating whether all newborns should be sequenced at birth, facilitating a lifetime of personalized medical care. But while sequencing the genomes of some infants may be appropriate in specific contexts, genome-wide sequencing of all newborns should not be pursued at this time, and health professionals should recommend against parents using direct-to-consumer genetic sequencing to diagnose or screen their newborns, states the lead article in The Ethics of Sequencing Newborns: Recommendations and Reflections, a new special report of the Hastings Center Report.


 
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