The need for films that give an understanding of genetics and HTS data emerged out of the difficulty doctors found in explaining these things without dedicated support media, even as genetics and genetic technologies continue to revolutionise genetic diagnostics for rare diseases. With the expected widespread use of these new technologies within the framework of the French Plan for Genomic Medicine 2025, it is important to put tools in place to make them more comprehensible to patients and their families, particularly to enable a patient (or his family) to make as informed a decision as possible on whether to access his secondary data (SD).
FHU TRANSLAD has spearheaded three educational films for explaining genetics and genomics to the widest possible audience :