Direct-to-consumer genetic testing

Direct-to-consumer (DTC) genetic testing is a controversial issue although Korean Government is considering to expand DTC genetic testing. Preventing the exaggeration and abusing of DTC genetic testing is an important task considering the early history of DTC genetic testing in Korea. And the DTC ge...

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Autor principal: Kim, Jong-Won
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Korea Genome Organization 2019
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Opinion
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6808640/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31610630
http://dx.doi.org/10.5808/GI.2019.17.3.e34
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description Direct-to-consumer (DTC) genetic testing is a controversial issue although Korean Government is considering to expand DTC genetic testing. Preventing the exaggeration and abusing of DTC genetic testing is an important task considering the early history of DTC genetic testing in Korea. And the DTC genetic testing performance or method has been rarely reported to the scientific and/or medical community and reliability of DTC genetic testing needs to be assessed. Law enforcement needs to improve these issues. Also principle of transparency needs to be applied.
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spelling pubmed-68086402019-10-24 Direct-to-consumer genetic testing Kim, Jong-Won Genomics Inform Opinion Direct-to-consumer (DTC) genetic testing is a controversial issue although Korean Government is considering to expand DTC genetic testing. Preventing the exaggeration and abusing of DTC genetic testing is an important task considering the early history of DTC genetic testing in Korea. And the DTC genetic testing performance or method has been rarely reported to the scientific and/or medical community and reliability of DTC genetic testing needs to be assessed. Law enforcement needs to improve these issues. Also principle of transparency needs to be applied. Korea Genome Organization 2019-09-27 /pmc/articles/PMC6808640/ /pubmed/31610630 http://dx.doi.org/10.5808/GI.2019.17.3.e34 Text en (c) 2019, Korea Genome Organization (CC) This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution license(https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6808640/
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