People around the US, regardless of whether they live in a large city or a remote village, can now order genetic tests online to learn their inherited risks for serious diseases, such as cancer. But what do individuals do after they learn their risks? How do they find...
Beyoncé’s father, Matthew Knowles, recently went public with the announcement that he has breast cancer and carries a mutation in a gene called BRCA2. He joins Angelina Jolie as a celebrity who has shared their private medical and genetic history in order to...
Investigators at Ambry Genetics, the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, the University of Utah, and the University of California at Irvine have tapped into Ambry’s large collection of multigene panel test results to clarify hereditary cancer associations in high-risk...
Errors in the ordering and interpretation of genetic tests for cancer, as well as in communicating results, are continuing to occur, and a newly published report highlighting some of these errors suggests that the nature of the mistakes are reflective of the rapid...
The One-Stop Solution will allow direct-to-consumer kit users to confirm their hereditary cancer results. NEW HAVEN, CONN. (PRWEB) MARCH 18, 2019 My Gene Counsel, a digital health company that provides personalized, easy-to-understand genetic testing...