CDC is sponsoring an ASHG Genetics and Public Health Research and Practice Program fellowship to enhance CDC’s current activities and develop new approaches in integrating genetics and genomics into public health policy and programs at the national, state, and local levels. For more information, visit the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) website. The deadline to apply is March 15, 2008.
	CDC's National Office of Public Health Genomics seeks a new geneticist. For more information about this position, click on the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services website and enter the vacancy number (HHS-CDC-T2-2008-0158 – for current employees or HHS-CDC-D2-2008-0091 – for non-federal applicants). The deadline to apply is February 15, 2008.
	CDC's National Office of Public Health Genomics announces a new funding opportunity for those interested in genomics translation research. Final applications are due: February 27, 2008. If you have questions, please contact Brenda Colley-Gilbert at 770/488-8390 or bjc4@cdc.gov.
	New journal, Public Health Genomics,  (a continuation of Community Genetics), expands the scope from medical genetics to include all topics related to the translation of genome-based science into population health improvements.
	HuGENet™ What's New February 2008

• 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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Three generations of ongoing controversies concerning the use of short acting Beta-agonist therapy in asthma: a review
Jalba MS
J Asthma 2008 Jan-2008 Feb;45(1):9-18

COPD: A Pediatric Disease
Bush A
COPD 2008 Feb;5(1):53-67

WGAViewer: A Software for Genomic Annotation of Whole Genome Association Studies
Ge D, et al.
Genome Res 2008 Feb

Simple and efficient analysis of disease association with missing genotype data
Lin DY, et al.
Am J Hum Genet 2008 Feb;82(2):444-52

Psychological Factors Associated with Emotional Responses to Receiving Genetic Risk Information
Bennett P, et al.
J Genet Couns 2008 Feb

Pharmacogenetics: From Bench to Byte
Swen J, et al.
Clin Pharmacol Ther 2008 Feb

Prognostic Modelling in Ischaemic Stroke Study, Additional Value of Genetic Characteristics. Rationale and Design
Achterberg S, et al.
Eur Neurol 2008 Feb;59(5):243-52

Recent advances in the genetics of RA susceptibility
Bowes J & Barton A
Rheumatology (Oxford) 2008 Feb

 

Carrier frequency of autosomal-recessive disorders in the Ashkenazi Jewish population: should the rationale for mutation choice for screening be reevaluated?
Fares F, et al.
Prenat Diagn 2008 Feb

Sharing Genetic Test Results in Lynch Syndrome: Communication With Close and Distant Relatives
Stoffel EM, et al.
Clin Gastroenterol Hepatol 2008 Feb

The impact of genetic testing for Crohn's disease, risk magnitude and graphical format on motivation to stop smoking: an experimental analogue study
Wright AJ, et al.
Clin Genet 2008 Feb

 

Informing patients of familial diabetes mellitus risk: how do they respond? A cross-sectional survey
Qureshi N & Kai J
BMC Health Serv Res 2008 Feb;8(1):37

Family history: an essential tool for cardiovascular genetic medicine
Morales A, et al.
Congest Heart Fail 2008 Jan-2008 Feb;14(1):37-45

Familial aggregation of age-related macular degeneration in the Utah population
Luo L, et al.
Vision Res 2008 Feb;48(3):494-500

Recruitment strategies and comparison of prostate cancer-specific clinical data on African-American and Caucasian males with and without family history
Mandal DM, et al.
Prostate Cancer Prostatic Dis 2008 Feb

Family history of cancer as a risk factor for second malignancies after Hodgkin's lymphoma
Andersson A, et al.
Br J Cancer 2008 Feb

MSI is frequently recognized among gastric cancer patients with a family history  of cancer
Kanemitsu K, et al.
Hepatogastroenterology 2007 Dec;54(80):2410-4

Prediction of cardio- and cerebro-vascular events in patients with subclinical carotid atherosclerosis and low HDL-cholesterol
Rizzo M, et al.
Atherosclerosis 2008 Feb

 

On the use of general control samples for genome-wide association studies: genetic matching highlights causal variants
Luca D, et al.
Am J Hum Genet 2008 Feb;82(2):453-63

Three genome-wide association studies and a linkage analysis identify HERC2 as a  human iris color gene
Kayser M, et al.
Am J Hum Genet 2008 Feb;82(2):411-23

Common sequence variants on 2p15 and Xp11.22 confer susceptibility to prostate cancer
Gudmundsson J, et al.
Nat Genet 2008 Feb

Multiple newly identified loci associated with prostate cancer susceptibility
Eeles RA, et al.
Nat Genet 2008 Feb

Multiple loci identified in a genome-wide association study of prostate cancer
Thomas G, et al.
Nat Genet 2008 Feb

LDL-cholesterol concentrations: a genome-wide association study
Sandhu MS, et al.
Lancet 2008 Feb;371(9611):483-91

A single SNP in an evolutionary conserved region within intron 86 of the HERC2 gene determines human blue-brown eye color
Sturm RA, et al.
Am J Hum Genet 2008 Feb;82(2):424-31

A genome-wide association scan for asthma in a general Australian population
Hui J, et al.
Hum Genet 2008 Feb

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 February 13, 2008, 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 Skin and Subcutaneous Tissue
Diseases of the Musculoskeletal System and Connective Tissue
Congenital Anomalies
Symptoms, Signs, and Ill-defined Conditions
Injury and Poisoning

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