When people undergo genetic testing to find out whether they’re at risk for a specific disease, doctors often wonder how much information to give them. What if the genetic testing results reveal a risk for a disease the patient hadn’t been wondering about?
Geneticists are “grappling with what to do with all the information that could be disclosed, but wasn’t why the study was ordered in the first place,” Kurt D. Christensen of Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston told Reuters Health.
