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Brigham Preventive Genomics Clinic

The Preventive Genomics Clinic at Brigham and Women’s Hospital opened in August 2019 to provide DNA sequencing, comprehensive interpretation, and reporting of disease-related genes for healthy adults and children. It was the first academically affiliated institution to offer translational genomics in a clinical context, and was the first to offer these services for children as well as for adults. .

The clinic’s founding director, Robert C. Green, led a 2013 statement from the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics recommending that any adult or child whose genome is sequenced in pursuit of a specific diagnosis be offered the opportunity to receive any other actionable data gathered through this sequencing. Green also led the MedSeq, BabySeq, and MilSeq projects, the first federally funded studies of the medical, behavioral, and economic effects of genome sequencing in adults, infants, and military personnel.