{"id":3949,"date":"2015-03-09T12:01:05","date_gmt":"2015-03-09T17:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=3949"},"modified":"2015-03-09T10:37:56","modified_gmt":"2015-03-09T15:37:56","slug":"incidental-findings-what-would-you-want-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/incidental-findings-what-would-you-want-to-know\/","title":{"rendered":"Incidental findings: What would you want to know?<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-110\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\" alt=\"SMCC-english2\" width=\"255\" height=\"126\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With next-generation individual genome sequencing for medical reasons comes the ethical issue of uncovering incidental findings about one\u2019s health. Would you like your physician to tell you that you are at risk for \u00a0Alzheimer\u2019s disease?<\/p>\n<p>Responding to an online questionnaire, 1200 Canadians answered that they generally would agree to receive information about high-risk disease disorders but not information on low-risk disorders. Also, some participants wanted to receive no incidental results, regardless of the potential health implications.<\/p>\n<p>The authors conclude that their study shows that physicians should offer each patient an informed choice about the types of incidental findings they prefer to receive before taking a genome test.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmaj.ca\/lookup\/doi\/10.1503\/cmaj.140697\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research paper<\/span><\/a>\u00a0published in the\u00a0<em>CMAJ\u00a0<\/em>on\u00a0<strong>March 9<\/strong><span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_453723367\"><span class=\"aQJ\"><strong>, 2015<\/strong>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h4>Dean Regier, Cancer Control Research, BC Cancer Agency, Vancouver, British Columbia<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With next-generation individual genome sequencing for medical reasons comes the ethical issue of uncovering incidental findings about one\u2019s health. Would you like your physician to tell you that you are at risk for \u00a0Alzheimer\u2019s disease? Responding to an online questionnaire, 1200 Canadians answered that they generally would agree to receive information about high-risk disease disorders [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[125,869,203,909,51,476],"class_list":["post-3949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-british-columbia","tag-canada-en","tag-ethics","tag-genetics","tag-health","tag-public-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-11H","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3949"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3958,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3949\/revisions\/3958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}