#129 DTC Series: Picture Genetics on At-Home, Physician-Mediated, Genetic Testing

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Guests for this episode are from Fulgent Genetics (offering Picture Genetic kits), which is the sponsor of this new Direct To Consumer Genetic Testing Series. Jessica Shiles is a genetic counselor and Dr. Samuel Strom is the lab director.

Jessica serves as Fulgent’s Clinical Genetics Marketing Specialist. Her main role is to provide clinical training and expertise to help develop marketing material that is used to educate, support, and inform the patients and providers Fulgent serves. With Jessica’s strong passion for patient advocacy, she also leads Fulgent’s community outreach. She is a fellow Sarah Lawrence College’s alumni where she received her Masters of Science in Human Genetics.

Previously Dr. Strom was an assistant professor at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine where he pioneered interpreting genomics results in the context of clinical diagnostic testing for rare inherited diseases and cancer. At Fulgent, he is continuing to forward this new science at an industrial scale. He is also an accomplished researcher in the fields of neurogenetics, ophthalmic genetics, and molecular diagnostics, with publications in top journals such as Science, JAMA, Genetics in Medicine, and Human Molecular Genetics.

On This Episode We Discuss:

Overview of Picture Genetics’ approach to DTCs (including genetic counseling)

Difference between DTC genotyping and sequencing

Conditions on carrier screening (Picture Parenting)

Ideal time for carrier screening

Newborn testing for healthy vs sick babies

Newborn testing vs newborn screening

Conditions on newborn testing (Picture Newborn)

Value of newborn testing after negative carrier screening

ACMG59 qualification of conditions (Picture Wellness)

Purpose of ordering testing on the ACMG59 genes

COVID-19 DTC testing, including FDA approval

There is one correction during the episode, Jessica mentioned ACMG when she meant to say ACOG.

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