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Working Group on Incidental Findings published preliminary guidelines for clinical laboratories that perform clinical exome and genome sequencing. They outlined a list of "medically actionable" pathogenic gene mutations, mostly monogenetic or single-gene disorders, which were significantly associated
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incidental brain findings increasing with age. Even in healthy subjects acting as controls in research incidental findings are not rare. As most neuroimaging studies are performed in adults, less is known about the prevalence incidental findings in children. A study in 2017 in nearly 4000 children
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Unintentional genetic findings (aka "incidentalomes") are more commonly encountered with the advent of biomedical technologies capable of quickly and reliably performing genomic analysis, such as whole-genome sequencing. As with medical imaging, the capacity to measure biologic information in the
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are previously undiagnosed medical or psychiatric conditions that are discovered unintentionally and during evaluation for a medical or psychiatric condition. Such findings may occur in a variety of settings, including routine medical care, during
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Green, Robert C.; Berg, Jonathan S.; Grody, Wayne W.; Kalia, Sarah S.; Korf, Bruce R.; Martin, Christa L.; McGuire, Amy L.; Nussbaum, Robert L.; Oโ€™Daniel, Julianne M. (July 2013).
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between 8 and 12 reported that approximately 1 in 200 children showed asymptomatic incidental findings that required clinical follow-up.
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with important medical diagnoses and which should be reported to the patient "regardless of the probandโ€™s phenotype or age".
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form of genetic variation may exceed the scientific understanding of what the findings mean.
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may have abnormal findings that need further evaluation and with the increase of "whole-body
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Undiagnosed medical or psychiatric conditions discovered unintentionally during evaluation
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found by coincidence which is often benign and does not cause any clinically significant
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Incidental findings in neuroimaging are common, with the prevalence of
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Index

Incidental finding
biomedical research
autopsy
genetic testing

Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues
Incidental imaging finding
incidentaloma
tumor
symptoms
adrenal gland
diagnostic imaging
CT scan
CT scanning
neoplastic
tumors
pituitary gland
neoplasms
autopsy
radiologic
American College of Medical Genetics and Genomic
"The Law of Incidental Findings in Human Subjects Research"
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10.1111/j.1748-720X.2008.00281.x
PMC
2581517
PMID
18547206
"Autopsy after traumatic death--a shifting paradigm"
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