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Chunk #23 — PART I. DEFINITIONS

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Managing incidental findings and research results in genomic research involving biobanks and archived data sets.
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specimen pathology is checked upon submission to the biorepository and the diagnosis differs from that at the source site, but not necessarily return of ensuing genetic and genomic research results.24(pp27–28) Indeed, any study or biobank collecting or archiving either medical information or environmental exposure information may stumble upon clinically significant information whose discovery was not the research aim, and thus may face the question of whether to return these IFs.