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Editorial
. 2021 May;18(3):209-212.
doi: 10.2217/pme-2021-0016. Epub 2021 Mar 17.

Family-level impact of genetic testing: integrating health economics and ethical, legal, and social implications

Hadley Stevens Smith  1 , Amy L McGuire  1 , Eve Wittenberg  2 , Tara A Lavelle  3
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Editorial

Family-level impact of genetic testing: integrating health economics and ethical, legal, and social implications

Hadley Stevens Smith et al. Per Med. 2021 May.

Abstract

Tweetable abstract Health economics and ELSI can be better integrated to consider the family impacts of genetic and genomic testing.

Keywords: ELSI; cascade screening; clinical implementation; cost–effectiveness; evaluation; family; patient-centered.

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Conflict of interest statement

Financial & competing interests disclosure

Research reported in this publication was supported by the National Human Genome Research Institute of the National Institutes of Health under Award Number K99HG011491. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health. The authors have no other relevant affiliations or financial involvement with any organization or entity with a financial interest in or financial conflict with the subject matter or materials discussed in the manuscript apart from those disclosed.

No writing assistance was utilized in the production of this manuscript.

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