Becker's Healthcare December 3, 2024
Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic has begun integrating action items from genetic tests into health records for more than 100,000 patients who participated in an exome study for biomedical breakthroughs over the last four years.
The study analyzed DNA from a diverse patient population to gain information on genetic predispositions. The patients received genetic counseling and proactive medical guidance related to hereditary breast and overian cancer syndrome, Lynch syndrome and familial hypercholesteromia. Two-thousand participants had at least one genetic variant increasing their risk of disease, and 65% of those patients didn’t have prior family history of the conditions.
Some patients chose to take proactive steps including early screenings and treatments to prevent disease after receiving their results.
“Receiving genetic information can...
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