Prof. Wolf Quoted in Science on New Genomics Recommendations

Professor Susan Wolf was quoted in a Science article on a new set of recommendations from the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics. The article, entitled "Return of Unexpected DNA Results Urged," notes that "Geneticists, ethicists, and physicians reacted with shock to [the] recommendations." The recommendations "say that labs and clinicians have a duty to inflict this information on patients and should warn patients before sequencing is undertaken that that's the deal," says Wolf. Wolf is an outspoken advocate of returning incidental findings. "The fact that I support offering them does not mean I support inflicting them," she says. Wolf has led multiple projects on return of results and incidental findings, funded by NIH and now the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.