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Recent news stories about conflict of interest in biomedical research have shaken up public and private institutions alike, but their focus was on clinical research. Amidst the renewed focus on conflicts of interest in clinical work, let’s not disregard the fact that financial conflicts also pose a concern to basic and preclinical research.
Thanks to improvements in data collection and analysis, some polygenic risk scores that predict disease risk are approaching the same predictive accuracy offered by tests for monogenic mutations. The time to think about how best to incorporate polygenic tests in the clinic is now.