News and updates

CSER investigators are presenting in an invited science session (5/6 @ 1pm) at the Pediatrics Academic Societies (PAS) 2017 Meeting, highlighting cutting-edge CSER research in pediatric practice. Read more »

CSER funded work at AMIA TBI 2017 (Mar 27 - 30)! Read more »

Come check out CSER at AACR 2017 (April 1 - 5)! Read more »

Come check out CSER at ACMG 2017 (Mar 21 - 25)! Read more »

Out now! A CSER-developed just-in-time resource to aid non-geneticist clinicians in interpreting genomic reports. Read more »

Join us for a webcast of the eMERGE & CSER Meeting on February 2nd 2017! Read more »

A CSER-led effort surveyed 21 US laboratories to provide insight into current workflow and reporting practices, identifying convergences and divergences of approach. Read more »

Lack of consensus and need for terminology that promotes effective clinical communication led CSER investigators to study patient preferences for an optimal term for "incidental findings Read more »

Come check out CSER work at ASHG 2016! Read more »

With increasing use of genome and exome sequencing, efficient and effective methods to elicit preferences about returned genetic findings is crucial. The PIGSR is one such tool freely available online Read more »

Ensuring that shared common meaning of highly technical genomic terminology is critical in medical genetics. What do you think are some of the most commonly misused terms? Read more »

Come check out CSER work at NSGC 2016! Read more »

Understanding how clinicians and patients perceive the uncertainties of a negative genomic result (no explanatory genetic variant found) is critical in bringing genome sequencing to the clinic. Read more »

How does the lay public, through a deliberative democracy session, view the return of secondary findings? Read more »

Implementing system to categorize cosegregation data within the ACMG/AMP pathogenicity classification framework Read more »

Out now! The CSER Marker Paper describing CSER's progress in developing best practices for genomic medicine Read more »

CSER's "Variant Bake-off": Exploring how different labs use the 2015 ACMG/AMP Guidelines and their local frameworks to classify variant pathogenicity. Read more »

CSER's April 2016 Meeting, in sunny (gasp!) Seattle, Washington Read more »

Interested in whether oncologists and cancer patients have different perspectives towards WES findings, the DFCI CSER site initiates a project to find out where these differences lie Read more »

[Webcast available] GM9 will focus on one of the most vexing problems in clinical sequencing: characterizing and interpreting VUSes Read more »