Prof. Wolf Appears on MPR on Genetic Privacy and Family Access

Professor Susan Wolf was interviewed on Minnesota Public Radio for a program on "Genetic Privacy: Who Should Know What Your Tests Reveal?" Profs. Wolf and Robert Green (Harvard Medical School) discussed the tension between privacy protections for an individual's genetic test results and the potential need of family members to know the results for their own health care and reproductive planning. This tension is becoming more acute with the rise of genomic sequencing, capable of analyzing an individual's whole genome and generating massive amounts of health and risk information. The MPR program addressed issues central to NIH-funded research that Wolf is leading on sharing a research participant's genetic results with family members, including after the death of the participant. For more on that research project, visit http://consortium.umn.edu/grants_research/home.html#findings. To listen to the program, go to http://www.mprnews.org/story/2015/01/07/daily-circuit-genetic-privacy.