Genetic Testing Registry – Another Initiative of NIH

• Date: March 19, 2010
• Source: Admin

The National Institute of Health (NIH) has announced its new initiative of creating a Genetic Testing Registry to create a public database available for researchers, consumers, health care providers, and others looking for information. This database will contain information submitted by genetic test providers voluntarily.

At present, although there are more than 1,600 genetic tests are available to patients and consumers, but lack of public resource providing detailed information about them makes the genetic testing unavailable for the patients and consumers. GTR is an initiative of the NIH to fill the gap and it has been developed in order to enhance access of common people to information about the availability, validity, and usefulness of genetic tests.