What is an incidentalome? In a new paper, Robert Green, HMS lecturer on medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital, says it is a finding that is “incidental,” because it turned up even though you weren’t looking for it. Isaac Kohane, the Lawrence J. Henderson Professor of Pediatrics at Children’s Hospital Boston and director of the Countway Library of Medicine at HMS, is credited with coining the term “incidentalome.”
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