Variants of uncertain significance in BRCA: a harbinger of ethical and policy issues to come?

After two decades of genetic testing and research, the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes are two of the most well-characterized genes in the human genome. As a result, variants of uncertain significance (VUS; also called variants of unknown significance) are reported less frequently than for genes that have bee...

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Main Authors: Cheon, Jae Yeon, Mozersky, Jessica, Cook-Deegan, Robert
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: BioMed Central 2014
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4295298/