ESHG 2010 Satellite - Changing landscape of genetic testing and its impact on clinical and laboratory services and research in Europe
One day symposium, Gothenburg, Sweden, Friday, June 11, 2010
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Presentations
1. Science of these new technologies
- An overview of the new technologies (array CGH, whole genome sequencing, expression arrays, multifactoral diagnostic services) (Gert Jan van Ommen)
- Practical challenges for clinical genetic services (Dian Donnai)
- Practical challenges that copy number variation and whole genome sequencing creates for genetic diagnostic labs (Joris Vermeesch)
- Ethical and policy challenges in genetic screening (Lainie Friedman Ross)
2. Current and Future Challenges
- The role of professional geneticists in the changing landscape (Jean Jacques Cassiman)
- Building the evidence of unknown variants (Martijn Breuning)
- Clinical Utility (Peter Farndon)
- Patient perspective - new healthcare offers; appropriate testing (Alistair Kent)
- Ethical/legal issues in whole genome diagnostics (Timothy Caulfield)
- Governance issues in whole genome diagnostics (Ellen Wright Clayton)