Editorial commentary: Genetic testing in the absence of phenotype: When genetic testing may cause harm

Newly developed diagnostic tests are often embraced with great enthusiasm. Such advances create excitement for both practitioners and patients, providing hope that challenging medical conditions may be accurately diagnosed and henceforth optimally managed. This is the aim of all health care providers, to provide insightful explanation for ones suffering and to offer some means of disease-specific management. Among the great medical advances of the last 25 years, perhaps none have cross pollinated so many disciplines of medicine as the advent of clinical genetic testing, owing to the rapid successes in gene discovery research.

Source: Trends in Cardiovascular Medicine - October 9, 2016 Category: Cardiology Authors: Michael H. Gollob, MD Source Type: research