Clinical DNA Variant Interpretation

Conxi Lazaro PhD, Head of the Molecular Diagnostic Unit, Hereditary Cancer Program. Catalan Institute of Oncology. Program in Molecular Mechanisms and Experimental Therapy in Oncology (Oncobell), IDIBELL. Centro de Investigacion Biomedica en Red de Cancer (CIBERONC). Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain Jordan Lerner-Ellis FACMG is an Associate Professor at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto, Canada. Amanda Spurdle is an Associate Professor and Group Leader in Molecular Cancer Epidemiology at QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Australia. George Patrinos is Professor of Pharmacogenomics at the University of Patras School of Health Sciences (Department of Pharmacy) in Patras, Greece with Adjunct positions in Rotterdam, the Netherlands and Al-Ain, United Arab Emirates. His research interests span the fields of pharmacogenomics and personalised medicine, focused on psychiatric diseases and hemoglobinopathies, the implementation of genomics into healthcare, particularly for health systems in developing countries, the development of genomic databases and web-based translational tools for personalised medicine and the application of genomics in public health. George Patrinos has published more than 220 scientific papers in peer reviewed journals on topics related to genetics, genomic medicine, pharmacogenomics, molecular diagnostics, and social and economic evaluation for genomic medicine. He is also the editor of several textbooks published by Elsevier/Academic Press, including the renowned textbook Molecular Diagnostics , published by Elsevier now in its third edition. He serves as Communicating and Associate Editor for several high impact scientific journals and he is co-organizer of the international meeting series Golden Helix Conferences .