Next Generation Genetic Counseling: Introduction to the Special Issue

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The genesis of the idea for this special issue, as well as its title, “Next Generation Genetic Counseling,” originated in January 2012. As the newly hired project manager for the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill’s Clinical Sequencing Exploratory Research (CSER) consortium project, NCGENES, Myra had begun speculating just how the adaptation of Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) would affect genetic counseling practice (Roche 2012). Later that spring, at the American College of Medical Genetics meeting, the message that NGS would have an unprecedented impact on genetic counseling was delivered loudly and clearly but it seemed that too few of the voices sending that message belonged to genetic counselors. …