“…The remaining 14 papers reported economic evaluations that empirically estimated and weighed the costs and effects of molecular genetic tests [6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19]. Basic characteristics of these studies are summarised in table 1; they address a range of health conditions including cancers, thrombosis, cystic fibrosis, mental retardation, occupational illnesses, and rheumatic fever.…”