The first edition of the HuGENet™ Handbook of Systematic Reviews is now available at the HuGENet Canada Website . This document includes information on the different types of HuGE reviews and a complete set of points to consider when conducting such reviews.

This November, HuGENet UK will host a short course on how to undertake a HuGE systematic review. For more information, including a list of the faculty and topics to be covered, visit the HuGENet short course webpage or contact:

Jane Lane
HuGENet UK Coordinating Centre
Public Health Genetics Unit
Strangeways Research Laboratory
Worts Causeway
Cambridge CB1 8RN

Tel: +44 1223 742003
Email: jane.lane@srl.cam.ac.uk

HuGENet™ publications are articles related to the HuGENet™ movement written by HuGENet™ collaborators. A number of new HuGENet™ publications have been added to our website in March:

• Genomics and public health in the United States: signposts on the translation highway
  Gwinn M, Khoury MJ. Community Genet 2006;9(1):21-6

• Quantifying the health benefits of genetic tests: the importance of a population perspective
  Khoury MJ, Jones K, Grosse SD. Genet Med 2006 Mar;8(3):191-5

View all HuGENet™ Publications and learn how to submit a paper

Two new HuGE Reviews have been posted on the HuGENet™ website since the last issue of ‘What's New':

• The long QT syndrome family of cardiac ion channelopathies, by Stephen Modell et al. from the University of Michigan (Genetics in Medicine, March 2006)

• Association between the Transforming Growth Factor Alpha Gene and Nonsyndromic Oral Clefts, by Alexandre Vieira, University of Pittsburgh, (American Journal of Epidemiology, in press)

• Guidelines for submitting HuGE Reviews
• List of completed HuGE Reviews
• List of HuGE Review topics under development

As of April 1, 2006, the HuGENet™ website contains 20,686 research studies indexed in the HuGE Published Literature database, referencing 2,299 genes, 759 factors (personal or environmental), and 2,466 health outcomes/diseases.  Both epidemiologic studies and review articles can be found in the database which includes 274 meta-analyses and 90 pooled analyses. Please see the GDPInfo Summary of Contents for more details.

Note: The count of health outcomes indexed in the database is based on a query that groups similar outcomes according to ICD-9 codes.  This figure is different from the total numbers of records listed in the Genomics and Disease Prevention Information system (GDPInfo) portal Health Topics A-Z. 

Search for specific HuGENet™ content using the Advanced Search feature in the GDPInfo query tool.

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