New article Family history and prevalence of diabetes in the US population: 6-year results from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES, 1999-2004) , written by Rodolfo Valdez, Paula Yoon, Tiebin Liu, and Muin Khoury, was published in advance of the printed version in Diabetes Care on July 18, 2007.
	New July issue of PHG Foundation's monthly newsletter, featuring genomics and policy news

• The following are headlines from on-line news articles published during the past week.
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Predicting BRCA1 and BRCA2 gene mutation carriers: comparison of LAMBDA, BRCAPRO, Myriad II, and modified Couch models
Lindor NM, et al.
Fam Cancer 2007 Jul

Familial carotid body tumours: is there a role for genetic screening?
Jani P, et al.
J Laryngol Otol 2007 Jul:1-5

 

Family History of Premature Coronary Heart Disease and Coronary Artery Calcification. Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA)
Nasir K, et al.
Circulation 2007 Jul

Family history and prevalence of diabetes in the US population: 6-year results from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES, 1999 2004)
Valdez R, et al.
Diabetes Care 2007 Jul

Family History Predicts Stress Fracture in Active Female Adolescents
Loud KJ, et al.
Pediatrics 2007 Jul

Risk estimation for familial breast cancer: improving the system of counselling
Gregory H, et al.
Eur J Hum Genet 2007 Jul

Inter-informant agreement and prevalence estimates for substance use disorders: Direct interview versus family history method
Vandeleur CL, et al.
Drug Alcohol Depend 2007 Jul

 

Common pathways in inflammatory diseases revealed by genomics
Massey DC & Parkes M
Gut 2007 Jul

Rheumatic Fever and rheumatic heart disease: genetics and pathogenesis
Guilherme L, et al.
Scand J Immunol 2007 Aug;66(2-3):199-207

Review article: the genetic basis of haemochromatosis
Griffiths WJ
Aliment Pharmacol Ther 2007 Aug;26(3):331-42

Effects of genetic polymorphism of cytochrome P450 enzymes on the pharmacokinetics of benzodiazepines
Fukasawa T, et al.
J Clin Pharm Ther 2007 Aug;32(4):333-41

Incorporation of genetic model parameters for cost-effective designs of genetic association studies using DNA pooling
Ji F, et al.
BMC Genomics 2007 Jul;8(1):238

Vitamin C deficiency and scurvy are not only a dietary problem but are codetermined by the haptoglobin polymorphism
Delanghe JR, et al.
Clin Chem 2007 Aug;53(8):1397-400

GPDTI: A Genetic Programming Decision Tree Induction method to find epistatic effects in common complex diseases
Estrada-Gil JK, et al.
Bioinformatics 2007 Jul;23(13):i167-i174

Innate immunogenetics: a tool for exploring new frontiers of host defence
Bochud PY, et al.
Lancet Infect Dis 2007 Aug;7(8):531-42

Articles that report on population prevalence of genotypes, gene-disease associations, gene-environment and gene-gene interactions and evaluation of genetic tests. For more information on HuGE, please visit the HuGENet™ home page

For the week ending July 25, 2007, there are HuGE articles in the following areas:

Gene Variant Frequency
Infectious and Parasitic Diseases
Neoplasms
Endocrine, Nutritional and Metabolic Diseases
Mental Disorders
Diseases of the Nervous System and Sense Organs
Diseases of the Circulatory System
Diseases of the Respiratory System
Diseases of the Digestive System
Diseases of the Genitourinary System
Complications of Pregnancy, Childbirth, and the Puerperium
Diseases of the Skin and Subcutaneous Tissue
Congenital Anomalies
Symptoms, Signs, and Ill-defined Conditions
Injury and Poisoning

For more information on HuGE, please visit the HuGENet™ home page