Regulating Direct-to-Consumer Polygenic Risk Scores.

Sherkow, Jacob S; Park, Jin K; Lu, Christine Y

Sherkow, Jacob S; Park, Jin K; Lu, Christine Y.

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Sherkow JS; College of Law, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign.
Park JK; Carle Illinois College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana.
Lu CY; Harvard Medical School, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts.

JAMA ; 330(8): 691-692, 2023 08 22.

Article in En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-37535347

This Viewpoint discusses the possible harms associated with direct-to-consumer polygenic risk scores and advocates for federal regulation.

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Direct-To-Consumer Screening and Testing; Genetic Predisposition to Disease; Multifactorial Inheritance; Risk Assessment; Humans; Genetic Predisposition to Disease/genetics; Genome-Wide Association Study; Multifactorial Inheritance/genetics; Risk Factors; Risk Assessment/legislation & jurisprudence; Direct-To-Consumer Screening and Testing/legislation & jurisprudence; Direct-To-Consumer Screening and Testing/methods

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Full text: 1 Database: MEDLINE Main subject: Risk Assessment / Genetic Predisposition to Disease / Multifactorial Inheritance / Direct-To-Consumer Screening and Testing Type of study: Etiology_studies / Risk_factors_studies Limits: Humans Language: En Journal: JAMA Year: 2023 Type: Article

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