Articles on Genetics and Genomics for Clinicians
 Dr. Greg Feero, chief of the Genomic Healthcare Branch at the National Human Genome Research Institute, has authored a set of short, clinically relevant articles on genetics and genomics that are now available here for health care professionals.
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Get ready for a new round of discussions regarding advertisements with your patients: DTC marketing has entered the genomic age.
Dashboards, Detroit and DNA
This year has seen a flurry of national legislative activity pertaining to genetics in healthcare. Perhaps the most important is the genetic information non-discrimination act (GINA).
Gee Whiz What's a GWAS?
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few examples of discoveries about the genetics of common disease that recently made
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At Your Next Job Interview
Residents of the United States are only partially protected from genetic discrimination by a complicated patchwork of state laws that vary widely in scope and effect.
Personalized Medicine With a Genomic Twist
Though we rationalize our medication choices to ourselves and our patients, in the end, much of how we prescribe medicine relies on trial and error. This is inefficient and, all too often, dangerous.
Inherited Cancer Syndromes in My Practice?
The disconnect between our perception of the prevalence of hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer and the actual number of patients who are affected does our patients a disservice. Recognizing those at risk could truly save their lives.
Family History in a Flash
My Family Health Portrait (MFHP) can be completed at home by patients and can provide the health care provider with a bonanza of succinct, legible, organized family health information.
Sorry But It's Not Your Father's Genome
Our evolving understanding of the genome is leading to advances in therapeutic and diagnostic technology that even 10 years ago would have seemed more like something from Star Trek than a near reality.
Which Came First, the Cow or the Enucleated Oocyte?
As primary care providers we are frequently asked about issues that aren't strictly related to diagnoses and treatments, and increasingly food safety seems to be on the minds of patients.
Carrying Carrier Screening into the Future
Screening for pre-clinical disease is a core feature of primary care medicine. On a busy day, we usually do this without much conscious thought - for example, taking blood pressures or measuring developmental milestones.
Putting a Bug in Your Ear About Genetic Tests
A more humble area of "genetic" testing with clear immediate relevancy to the care of patients has been making quiet, but increasingly numerous, inroads into clinical medicine: nucleic acid-based testing for microbes.
Old Drugs New Tricks
The prospects for successful primary gene therapy for most disorders remain distant. However, remarkable gains - fueled by discoveries in genomics - have been made in understanding the pathophysiology of many genetic disorders, and are yielding therapeutic breakthroughs.
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Posted: July 1, 2008
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