Genetic Testing Oversight

Information Security Oversight Office

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Civilian Oversight of Policing

Cross-border genetic testing

As genetic testing (GT) is now available for many rare disorders, no GT laboratory can be expert enough to provide every test. Samples are therefore sent between laboratories for testing, often across borders. Such cross-border testing raises some questions: The 2003 OECD survey of 827 molecular GT laboratories in 18 countries found that 64% of laboratories had received samples from abroad. Thi...

Genetic testing of children.

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Genetic Testing for Neurofibromatosis

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