Points to consider in the reevaluation and reanalysis of genomic test results: a statement of the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics (ACMG)

Affiliations

¹ Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA. jdeignan@mednet.ucla.edu.
² Departments of Medicine and Pediatrics, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.
³ Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA.
⁴ GeneDx, Gaithersburg, MD, USA.
⁵ Department of Pathology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA.
⁶ Department of Pediatrics, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA.

Joshua L Deignan et al. Genet Med. 2019 Jun.

. 2019 Jun;21(6):1267-1270.

doi: 10.1038/s41436-019-0478-1. Epub 2019 Apr 24.

¹ Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA. jdeignan@mednet.ucla.edu.
² Departments of Medicine and Pediatrics, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.
³ Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA.
⁴ GeneDx, Gaithersburg, MD, USA.
⁵ Department of Pathology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA.
⁶ Department of Pediatrics, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA.

No abstract available

Keywords: genome; reanalysis; reclassification; reevaluation; variant.

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