Genetic Data Holds Opportunities And Risks For Litigants

By Kirk Hartley and David Schwartz (September 19, 2018, 2:12 PM EDT) -- Some scientific findings provide both opportunities and risks for litigants in mass tort cases. The point is highlighted by a new paper by Vasiliki Panou and colleagues published in mid-August in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.[1] The paper concludes that a significant proportion of patients with malignant mesotheliomas carry inherited (germline) mutations in cancer-associated genes, especially in peritoneal mesotheliomas....

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