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ArticleGenetics in medicine : official journal of the American College of Medical Genetics2015

Can targeted genetic testing offer useful health information to adoptees?

Thomas May, Kimberly A Strong, Muin J Khoury, James P Evans

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Article in Genetics in medicine : official journal of the American College of Medical Genetics, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed.

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  5. Ethics in genetic counselling.Journal of community genetics · 2019
    Review
  6. Autonomy, Well-Being, and the Value of Genetic Testing for Adopted Persons.HEC forum : an interdisciplinary journal on hospitals' ethical and legal issues · 2018
    Article
  7. Adopting genetics: motivations and outcomes of personal genomic testing in adult adoptees.Genetics in medicine : official journal of the American College of Medical Genetics · 2016
    Article
  8. Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Thomas May1] Center for Bioethics and Medical Humanities, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA [2] Institute for Health and Aging, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
Kimberly A StrongCenter for Bioethics and Medical Humanities, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.ORCID 0000000305532447
Muin J KhouryOffice of Public Health Genomics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
James P EvansDepartment of Genetics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.ORCID 0000000240808077

Funding

Intramural CDC HHS CC999999
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

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AdoptionGenetic TestingHumans

Identifiers

PMID25905442
PMCPMC4701205

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