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Observations on the "incidentalome"

dgmacarthur | June 12, 2009

Harvard biostatistician Peter Kraft (co-author of an excellent recent article on genetic risk prediction in the New England Journal of Medicine) has just added an interesting comment on his experience of this week's Consumer Genetics Show: I just wanted to share what for me were two stand-out moments at the CGS. First was Zak Kohane's discussion of the "Incidentalome"--a great turn of phrase that captures something I've been mulling over myself. (A less eloquent statement of this idea made it into the recent Nick Wade NYT article on genetic risk prediction). Basically, the idea is that even…

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