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06/20/2012

Boston Children’s to Study Families’ Preferences for Returning Results from Pediatric Sequencing Research

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A study underway at Boston Children’s Hospital is investigating how the preferences of parents can inform a choice-driven and ethical system for returning secondary findings of genomic sequencing studies of young children. The project, led by Boston Children’s’ Ingrid Holm, is combining a series of cognitive interviews — to better understand subjects’ preferences and decision making in choosing what results to receive from their children’s sequencing data—with a study tracking the experiences of families who actually go through the process of receiving results.

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