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Huge US government study to offer genetic counselling

A firm hired by the National Institutes of Health will work with participants in a research programme that plans to sequence one million genomes.
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A US government study that aims to sequence the genomes of one million volunteers will partner with a genetic-counselling company to help participants understand their results. It will be the largest US government study to provide such a service.

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Nature 572, 573 (2019)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-019-02509-4

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  • Correction 21 August 2019: The story initially said that bioethicist Amy McGuire was at Baylor University in Waco, Texas. She is at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. The piece also referenced a review in the New England Journal of Medicine on people included in genetic studies of disease. It was in the journal Cell.

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  1. Sirugo, G. et al. Cell 177, 26-31 (2019).

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