HuGENet™ would like to invite researchers to conduct HuGE Field Synopses in their areas of expertise. HuGE Field Synopses provide systematic, updated, and authoritative reviews of genetic associations in a specific area of research such as a disease or closely related health conditions. Authors are encouraged to summarize and grade genetic associations using the interim guidelines for assessing the cumulative evidence on genetic associations developed by HuGENet. For more information, please review the materials from the HuGENet Workshop, “Networks, Genome-Wide Association Studies, and the Knowledge Base on Genetic Variation and Human Health”. 

• Read the recently published field synopsis, Systematic meta-analyses and field synopsis of genetic association studies in schizophrenia: the SzGene database

One new HuGE Review has been posted on the HuGENet™ Web site since the last issue of the What's New:

• NQO1 polymorphisms and de novo childhood leukemia: A HuGE review and meta-analysis by Neela Guha, et al., from the University of California at Berkeley.
  

> List of completed HuGE Reviews
> List of HuGE Review topics under development

The following publications were written by HuGENet™ collaborators:

• Public health genomics approach to type 2 diabetes

• Heterogeneous views on heterogeneity

As of November 17, 2008, the HuGE Navigator  contains 37,891 research studies, referencing 4,189 genes, and 2,082 health outcomes/diseases. Both epidemiologic studies and review articles can be found in the database which includes 72 HuGE Reviews and 842 meta-analyses.

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