Ethical concerns about genetic testing in clinic practice

Clinic genetic testing have make rapid progress in recent years, and have been widely applicated in genetic disease diagnosis, infection disease diagnosis and personalized treatment. The aim of this article is to pay attention to the ethical issues raised by genetic testing. The important ethical problems are proposed accompany with prenatal, adolescent, and adult genetic testing respectively .We should adopt responsible best ethical practices in the provision of genetic testing, promote the widely application of gene detection in clinic orderly.(Chin J Lab Med, 2016, 39: 481-483) Key words: Genetic testing; Precise medicine; Medical ethics; Personalized medicine; Prenatal diagnosis