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• The following are headlines from on-line news articles published during the past week.
• The headlines and lead sentence are exactly as they appear in the popular press & do not necessarily reflect the opinions or recommendations of CDC.
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Cancer
Lab on a Chip for Oral Cancer Shows Promise,  NIH News, August 8	Aggressive therapy best for certain acute myeloid leukemia patients,  News-Medical.Net, August 5
Deadly inheritance, desperate trade-off,  New York Times, August 7	Specific microRNA, called miR-21, helps liver cancer develop,  News-Medical.Net, August 5
New lung tumor-suppressor gene discovered,   Science Daily, August 6	Gene fusion subtypes in prostate carcinoma have clinical implications,  Medical News Today, August 3

Implications of pharmacogenomics in the current and future treatment of asthma
Morrow T
J Manag Care Pharm 2007 Jul-2007 Aug;13(6):497-505

New perspectives for the elucidation of genetic disorders
Ropers HH
Am J Hum Genet 2007 Aug;81(2):199-207

Rapid ACCE: experience with a rapid and structured approach for evaluating gene-based testing
Gudgeon JM, et al.
Genet Med 2007 Jul;9(7):473-8

Evaluation of genome-wide power of genetic association studies based on empirical data from the HapMap Project
Nannya Y, et al.
Hum Mol Genet 2007 Jul

Genetic polymorphisms and esophageal cancer risk
Hiyama T, et al.
Int J Cancer 2007 Aug

Genetic polymorphism and function of glutathione S-transferases in tumor drug resistance
Lo HW & Ali-Osman F
Curr Opin Pharmacol 2007 Aug

Is genetic testing for Cytochrome P450 Polymorphisms ready for implementation? 
Matchar DB and Thakur M
American Family Physician 2007 Aug; 76(3)

Genetic screening in 2,710 infertile candidate couples for assisted reproductive  techniques: results of application of Italian guidelines for the appropriate use  of genetic tests
Riccaboni A, et al.
Fertil Steril 2007 Aug

BRCA1/2 mutation testing in breast cancer patients: a prospective study of the long-term psychological impact of approach during adjuvant radiotherapy
Schlich-Bakker KJ, et al.
Breast Cancer Res Treat 2007 Aug

 

Increased prevalence of antimitochondrial antibodies in first-degree relatives of patients with primary biliary cirrhosis
Lazaridis KN, et al.
Hepatology 2007 Aug

Efficacy of family history in determining thrombophilia risk
Dietrich JE, et al.
J Pediatr Adolesc Gynecol 2007 Aug;20(4):221-4

Positive family history is associated with persistent elevated emotional distress in schizophrenia: Evidence from a 16-month follow-up study
Ritsner MS, et al.
Psychiatry Res 2007 Jul

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 August 8, 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 Musculoskeletal System and Connective Tissue

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