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Chunk #108 — PART III. CRYSTALLIZING 10 RECOMMENDATIONS — Recommendation 3

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Managing incidental findings and research results in genomic research involving biobanks and archived data sets.
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In a biobank research system, responsibilities for handling IFs and IRRs can be broken down into 4 steps organized by the acronym CARR: Clarifying the criteria for evaluating findings and the roster of returnable IFs and IRRs;Analyzing a particular finding to decide whether it should be offered to the contributor;Re-identifying that contributor (or contributors, if multiple individuals one are affected by the finding); andRecontacting the contributor to offer the finding.