New article, Family History and Prevalence of Diabetes in the U.S. Population: The 6-year results from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (1999–2004),  published in the October 2007 issue of Diabetes Care. Authors: Valdez R, Yoon PW, Liu T and Khoury MJ
	New HuGE publication, Assessment of Cumulative Evidence on Genetic Associations: Interim Guidelines, published in the September 2007 issue of the International Journal of Epidemiology. Authors: Ioannidis JPA, Boffetta P, Little J, O’Brien TR, Uitterlinden AG, Vineis P, et al.
	View remarks by HHS Secretary Michael O. Leavitt and presentations given at the 21st Century Medicine: Personalized and Evidence-Based   event hosted by the Personalized Medicine Coalition and Georgetown University School of Nursing & Health Studies on September 18-19, 2007.
	Join the Mid-West Community Genetics Forum on Genomics, Community and Equity: A Continuing Dialogue  presented by the University of Michigan, Center for Public Health and Community Genomics on October 12, 2007. Forums will be held in Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, and Missouri.

• The following are headlines from on-line news articles published during the past week.
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Effects of environment, genetics and data analysis pitfalls in an esophageal cancer genome-wide association study
Statnikov A, et al.
PLoS ONE 2007;2(9):e958

Genomics and the future of pharmacotherapy in psychiatry
Malhotra AK, et al.
Int Rev Psychiatry 2007 Oct;19(5):523-30

Contribution of hierarchical clustering techniques to the modeling of the geographic distribution of genetic polymorphisms associated with chronic inflammatory diseases in the Quebec population
Madore AM, et al.
Community Genet 2007;10(4):218-26

Genetic association studies; the good, the bad, and the ugly
Donahue MP & Kraus WE
Am Heart J 2007 Oct;154(4):610-2

Population attributable fraction: its implications for genetic epidemiology and illness prevention
Karp I, et al.
Am Heart J 2007 Oct;154(4):607-9

Beyond "misunderstanding": Written information and decisions about taking part in a genetic epidemiology study
Dixon-Woods M, et al.
Soc Sci Med 2007 Sep

Genetic epidemiology of primary sclerosing cholangitis
Karlsen TH, et al.
World J Gastroenterol 2007 Nov;13(41):5421-31

Genetic variation of estrogen metabolism and the risks of cardiovascular disease
Almeida S & Hutz MH
Curr Opin Investig Drugs 2007 Oct;8(10):814-20

Pharmacogenetics of warfarin: regulatory, scientific, and clinical issues
Gage BF & Lesko LJ
J Thromb Thrombolysis 2007 Oct

The Framingham Heart Study 100K SNP genome-wide association study resource: overview of 17 phenotype working group reports
Cupples LA, et al.
BMC Med Genet 2007 Sep;8 Suppl 1:S1

Danger zones: risk perceptions of young women from families with hereditary breast and ovarian cancer
Werner-Lin AV
Fam Process 2007 Sep;46(3):335-49

 

Increased cancer risk for individuals with a family history of prostate cancer, colorectal cancer, and melanoma and their associated screening recommendations and practices
Noe M, et al.
Cancer Causes Control 2007 Sep

Genetics of migraine headache in children
Hershey AD
Curr Pain Headache Rep 2007 Oct;11(5):390-5

The presence of family history and the development of type 2 diabetes mellitus risk factors in rural children
Adams MH & Lammon CA
J Sch Nurs 2007 Oct;23(5):259-66

Modification of risk for subsequent cancer after female breast cancer by a family history of breast cancer
Hemminki K, et al.
Breast Cancer Res Treat 2007 Sep

Sociodemographic, Family History, and Lifestyle Risk Factors for Open-angle Glaucoma and Ocular Hypertension The Los Angeles Latino Eye Study
Doshi V, et al.
Ophthalmology 2007 Sep

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 October 3, 2007, there are HuGE articles in the following areas:

Gene Variant Frequency
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
Complications of Pregnancy, Childbirth, and the Puerperium
Diseases of the Skin and Subcutaneous Tissue
Diseases of the Musculoskeletal System and Connective Tissue
Certain Conditions Originating in the Perinatal Period
Symptoms, Signs, and Ill-defined Conditions

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