Why Total Reporting of Genetic Results Is a Bad Idea

Laboratories that sequence an individual's entire genome should limit the results they report to clinicians and their patients based on certain usability criteria, according to the first set of guidelines on the subject from the American College of Medical Genetics (ACMG). Geneticists simply don't know what to make of most of the information that they find and it's much too easy to misinterpret many of the results. [More]