CDC's National Office of Public Health Genomics is looking for a nurse consultant. For more information about the position, click on the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services web site and enter the vacancy number (HHS-CDC-T2-2009-0188 (408KB) – for current employees or HHS-CDC-D2-2009-0085  (318KB) – for non-federal applicants). The deadline to apply is December 31, 2008.
	Two new family history-related articles published in the January 2009 issue of Preventing Chronic Disease: Influence of Family History of Diabetes on Health Care Provider Practice and Patient Behavior Among Nondiabetic Oregonians, authors: Zlot AI, Bland MP, Silvey K, Epstein B, Mielke B, Leman RF., and Developing Family Healthware, a Family History Screening Tool to Prevent Common Chronic Diseases, authors: Yoon PW, Scheuner MT, Jorgensen C, Khoury MJ.
	New version of My Family Health Portrait Internet-based family health history tool to be released by the U.S. Surgeon General in January 2009. Read more   (24 KB)
	Summer Institute in Public Health Genetics: Translating Genomics into Policy and Practice  (66 KB) offered by the University of Washington Center for Genomics & Public Health and CDC's National Office of Public Health Genomics on June 22-26, 2009, in Seattle, Washington. For more information, send an email to: cgph@u.washington.edu.
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Cancer
New anti-tumor gene called SARI,  News-Medical.Net, December 16	SABCS: Breast cancer risk varies in young women with benign breast... Medpage Today, December 15
Breast cancer genome shows instability of cancer,  News-Medical.Net, December 16	Stopping ovarian cancer by blocking proteins coded by notorious gene,  EurekAlert, December 15
Gene subnetworks provide new prognostic markers for breast...  News-Medical.Net, December 16	Test all colon cancers for inherited form,  Emax Health, December 15
GUMC researchers find gene inactivated in two aggressive cancers,  News-Medical.Net, December 15	Postmenopausal patients being considered for tamoxifen therapy...  News-Medical.Net, December 14

Gene Prospector: An evidence gateway for evaluating potential susceptibility genes and interacting risk factors for human diseases Yu W, et al. BMC Bioinformatics 2008 Dec;9(1):528

Public health genomics: translating obesity genomics research into population health benefits
Agurs-Collins T, et al.
Obesity (Silver Spring) 2008 Dec;16 Suppl 3:S85-94

Action following the discovery of a global association between the whole genome and adverse event risk in a clinical drug-development programme
Whitehead J, et al.
Pharm Stat 2008 Dec

Ethical considerations in psychiatric genetics
Hoop JG
Harv Rev Psychiatry 2008;16(6):322-38

Predictive Genomics of Cardioembolic Stroke
Ramoni RB, et al.
Stroke 2008 Dec

Nutritional genomics and dietetic professional practice
Ryan-Harshman M, et al.
Can J Diet Pract Res 2008 Winter;69(4):177-82

Genome-wide association studies in the genetics of asthma
Willis-Owen SA, et al.
Curr Allergy Asthma Rep 2009 Jan;9(1):3-9

Genetic susceptibility in Parkinson's disease
Bras JM & Singleton A
Biochim Biophys Acta 2008 Nov

Pharmacogenetics: from description to prediction
Weber WW
Clin Lab Med 2008 Dec;28(4):499-511

The contribution of genes to osteoarthritis
Valdes AM & Spector TD
Med Clin North Am 2009 Jan;93(1):45-66

Genetics of ischemic stroke: inheritance of a sporadic disorder
Ross OA & Meschia JF
Curr Neurol Neurosci Rep 2009 Jan;9(1):19-27

Clinical implications of low-penetrance breast cancer susceptibility alleles
Freisinger F & Domchek SM
Curr Oncol Rep 2009 Jan;11(1):8-14

Progress and challenges in genome-wide association studies in humans
Donnelly P
Nature 2008 Dec;456(7223):728-31

Pharmacogenetics of asthma
Lima JJ, et al.
Curr Opin Pulm Med 2009 Jan;15(1):57-62

Detecting Gene-Environment Interactions Using a Combined Case-Only and Case-Control Approach
Li D & Conti DV
Am J Epidemiol 2008 Dec

Pharmacogenomics of G Protein-Coupled Receptor Ligands in Cardiovascular Medicine
Rosskopf D & Michel MC
Pharmacol Rev 2008 Dec

Developing family healthware, a family history screening tool to prevent common chronic diseases
Yoon PW, et al.
Prev Chronic Dis 2009 Jan;6(1):A33

Influence of family history of diabetes on health care provider practice and patient behavior among nondiabetic oregonians
Zlot AI, et al.
Prev Chronic Dis 2009 Jan;6(1):A27

Familial lung cancer risk among women in Poland
Rachtan J, et al.
Lung Cancer 2008 Dec

 

Dystrophin gene analysis in Hungarian Duchenne/Becker muscular dystrophy families - Detection of carrier status in symptomatic and asymptomatic female relatives
Piko H, et al.
Neuromuscul Disord 2008 Dec

Psychosocial impact of presymptomatic genetic testing for transthyretin amyloidotic polyneuropathy
Graceffa A, et al.
Neuromuscul Disord 2008 Dec

Clinical question: When should genetic testing be obtained in a patient with pheochromocytoma or paraganglioma?
Erlic Z & Neumann HP
Clin Endocrinol (Oxf) 2008 Dec

Barriers to Genetic Testing Among Persons at Risk for Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency
Dickson MR, et al.
Genet Test 2008 Dec;12(4):501-5

Development and Pilot Testing of a Decision Aid for Men Considering Genetic Testing for Breast and/or Ovarian Cancer-Related Mutations (BRCA1/2)
Juan AS, et al.
Genet Test 2008 Dec;12(4):523-32

Analysis: Secretary's Advisory Committee on Genetics, Health, and Society Report  falls short
Klein RD
Hum Pathol 2008 Dec

Variants in TF and HFE Explain approximately 40% of Genetic Variation in Serum-Transferrin Levels
Benyamin B, et al.
Am J Hum Genet 2008 Dec

Gene-wide analyses of genome-wide association data sets: evidence for multiple common risk alleles for schizophrenia and bipolar disorder and for overlap in genetic risk
Moskvina V, et al.
Mol Psychiatry 2008 Dec

Genetic risk factors for variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease: a genome-wide association study
Mead S, et al.
Lancet Neurol 2009 Jan;8(1):57-66

Six new loci associated with body mass index highlight a neuronal influence on body weight regulation
Willer CJ, et al.
Nat Genet 2008 Dec

Genome-wide association yields new sequence variants at seven loci that associate with measures of obesity
Thorleifsson G, et al.
Nat Genet 2008 Dec

Genome-wide association for major depressive disorder: a possible role for the presynaptic protein piccolo
Sullivan PF, et al.
Mol Psychiatry 2008 Dec

 

Shared and Distinct Genetic Variants in Type 1 Diabetes and Celiac Disease
Smyth DJ, et al.
N Engl J Med 2008 Dec

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