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Human Genome News Archive Edition

Vol.10, No.3-4   October 1999 
Available in PDF 
 
In this issue... 

DOE '99 Oakland Highlights
* Meeting Intro
* HGP Progress, Challenges
* Joint Genome Institute
*
JGI Facility Opening
*
Sequencing
*
Device Speeds Sequencing
* Chromosome 19 Genes
* Functional Genomics
* Sample Prep System
* Informatics
* Education & Bioethics
* Microbial Genomes
* Next Meeting Feb. 2000

Genome Project
* Accelerated Timetable
* FY1999 Budgets
* JGI Refits Facility
* Progress

In the News 
* Drosophila Near Completion
* Directors, Researchers Receive Awards
* Chromosomes 21, 22 Near Finish
* Human MHC Region Sequenced
* Mouse Probes Aid Mapping
* Genetic Testing Committee
* DOE Labs & Biomedicine
* Biomedical Engineering Proposals
* Drug Firms Create SNP Resource
* SBIR 1999 Awards
* HUGO News
* 1999 Hollaender Winners

Microbial Genomics 
* EcoCyc Database for E. coli
* Developing EcoCyc
* Thermotoga Sequence
* Clostridium Sequenced
* Microbial Gene Finder
* Neisseria Sequence
* Microbial Web Sites

Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues
* Education, Counseling Foundation
* ELSI Studies
* ELSI Retrospective
* Protecting Privacy

Informatics 
* MGI 2.2 Released
* DNA Repository

Web, Other Resources, Publications 
* Metabolic Pathways
* New Staden Package
* PDB Newsletter
* Polymorphism Database
* Bacterial Protein Database
* DOE BER Publications
* HGP Information Web
* Biotechnology Business Webs
* Behavioral Genetics
* Office of Science Reports
* Articles on Genetics

Funding 
* Genome Research Funding

Meeting Calendars & Acronyms 
* Genome & Biotech Meetings 
* Training Courses & Workshops 
* Acronyms 


*HGN archives & subscriptions 
*HGP Information home

In the News

Genetic Testing Advisory Committee

The Secretary's Advisory Committee on Genetic Testing (SACGT) of the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) held its first meeting in June. Chaired by Edward McCabe (University of California, Los Angeles), the 13-member committee's task is to help DHHS formulate policies on the development, validation, and regulation of genetic tests, particularly DNA-based diagnostics. SACGT was formed last year on the recommendation of the NIH-DOE Task Force on Genetic Testing.

At the meeting, the committee set up working groups to address the adequacy of governmental oversight of genetic tests and to plan how to gather public perspectives. Members also identified nine broad areas that will require the committee's consideration over the next 2 years. These include education, access to testing, diversity issues, stigmatization, rare disorders, introduction of tests into clinical practice, use of evidentiary-based models and outcome assessments, economic issues in genetic testing and oversight, and direct marketing of tests.


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Human Genome Program, U.S. Department of Energy, Human Genome News (v10n3-4).

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