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The Ultimate Selfie
At the reflective pool “Unable to leave the beauty of his reflection, Narcissus drowned.” Painting from Echo and Narcissus, John William Waterhouse 1903 Now within reach, our personal genomic sequence...
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Genomic discoveries to clinical applications: Are we reaching an inflection...
Each year at the annual American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) meeting I follow certain rituals. During the first “poster session”, I quickly peruse all of the vendor booths on the floor to assess...
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Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Testing and Public Health Education
We have previously blogged about the value (or lack thereof) of direct-to-consumer (DTC) genetic tests in improving health. In a 2011 blog entitled “think before you spit” we cautioned that there was...
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Precision Public Health: More Precision Ahead for Individual and Population...
In August 2016, we published a point-counterpoint viewpoint asking a crucial question that has been on the minds of researchers, health care providers and the public health community: “will precision...
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Trends in CDC Publications in Public Health Genomics, 2012-2016
Public health genomics advances the translation of genome-based discoveries into disease prevention and population health. Scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are using...
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Perspectives from a state genetics coordinator: Public health’s role in...
For several years I have pondered what should or could be the state public health agency role in addressing FH. Most of my public health genetics colleagues were actively working on other CDC-labeled...
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Genetic Counseling and Public Health in the Era of Precision Medicine
In August 2019, the All of Us Research Program announced the funding of a nationwide resource to provide genetic counseling support to one or more million participants in the precision medicine cohort...
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Genomic Medicine Year in Review 2019: What’s Hot for Public Health Impact?
Advances in genomic medicine continue at a fast and steady pace. In a recent paper, The Genomic Medicine Working Group of the National Advisory Council for Human Genome Research of the National Human...
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Reducing the Global Public Health Burden of Familial Hypercholesterolemia:...
In our previous blog, we discussed familial hypercholesterolemia as a prototype for “precision public health” and how the combination of public health and genetic approaches can contribute to raising...
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Applications of Digital Tools for Precision Public Health in the COVID-19...
Two recent systematic scoping reviews explore the use and limitations of digital tools in public health surveillance and their applications to the pandemic response Digital health tools offer...
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