Welcome to the Public Health Perspective Series, the National Office of Public Health Genomics's highlights page. Researching the weekly update, NOPHG finds scientific literature that reports on discoveries of genetic variants, related disease outcomes, and the complex social, legal, and ethical issues surrounding genetic discoveries. A Public Health Perspective focuses on a single topic and provides you with information relevant to public health practice.

This Public Health Perspective examines the topic of Will Genetics Revolutionize Medicine?:  A Public Health Perspective.

We are currently exploring the question posed by Holtzman and Marteau in the July 2000 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, "Will Genetics Revolutionize Medicine?"  (December 2000)

" Yes, but careful planning and additional research are needed before we will see a new era in medicine. Only after researchers complete clinical and epidemiologic studies on thousands of genes and interacting factors, will we have the types of data needed to translate gene discoveries into medical practice in the 21 st century."
The National Office of Public Health Genomics

• Genetics and hype
  Comments from the UK Public Health Genetics Unit 
  (Please scroll down to the Journal Club entry)

• Will Genetics Revolutionize Medicine? A Public Health Perspective
  An editorial comment from the National Office of Public Health Genomics

• Will Genetics Revolutionize Medicine? (last accessed 5/2007)
  Holtzman NA and Marteau, TM 
  N Engl J Med 2000 Jul 13; 343(2)

• Letters to the Editor  (last accessed 5/2007)
  N Engl J Med 2000 Nov 16; Vol. 343, (20)

• Medical and Societal Consequences of the Human Genome Project
  Collins, FS
  N Engl J Med 1999 Jul 1; 341(1)

• The Human Genome Project: A False Dawn? (last accessed 5/2007)
  R L Zimmern 
  BMJ 1999;319:1282 [full] ( 13 November )

• Human Genome Epidemiology (HuGE): Translating Advances in Human Genetics into Population-based Data for Medicine and Public Health
  Khoury MJ
  Genetics in Medicine 1999; 1:71-73

• Impact of Genomics on Drug Discovery and Clinical Medicine.  (last accessed 5/2007)
  Emilien G, et. al
  QJM. 2000 Jul;93(7):391-423

• Genetic Screening to Offset Adult Disease   (last accessed 5/2007)
  Friedrich, MJ
  JAMA 2000, Nov 8; 284 (18)

• Relating Genomic Research to Patient Care
  M. J. Friedrich

• Core Competencies for Health Care Providers   (last accessed 5/2007)

• "From Gene Sequencing and Discovery to Public Health Action"  slide
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