Home testing for COVID-19: lessons from direct to consumer genetics.


Journal

Journal of community genetics
ISSN: 1868-310X
Titre abrégé: J Community Genet
Pays: Germany
ID NLM: 101551501

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
Oct 2020
Historique:
received: 12 05 2020
accepted: 01 06 2020
pubmed: 20 6 2020
medline: 20 6 2020
entrez: 20 6 2020
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

On March 11th, 2020, COVID-19 was declared a worldwide pandemic. Publicly available testing has lagged, and tech entrepreneurs have quickly volunteered to fill this gap. Over the last two decades, genetic testing ordered outside of a clinic and without the involvement of a physician has been a way for the average individual to get genetic testing. In this commentary, we discuss the lessons learned from this parallel case from genetics and suggest regulatory caution in establishing direct-to-consumer COVID testing.

Identifiants

pubmed: 32556893
doi: 10.1007/s12687-020-00470-8
pii: 10.1007/s12687-020-00470-8
pmc: PMC7298440
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Pagination

497-499

Références

Nat Rev Genet. 2011 Jun 01;12(7):511-5
pubmed: 21629275
J Community Genet. 2018 Jan;9(1):1-18
pubmed: 28664264
Genet Med. 2018 Dec;20(12):1515-1521
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Auteurs

Theodore E Wilson (TE)

Department of Medical and Molecular Genetics, Indiana University School of Medicine, 975 W. Walnut St., Indianapolis, IN, 46202, USA. theowils@iu.edu.

Colin Halverson (C)

Center for Bioethics, Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN, USA.
Department of Anthropology, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA.

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