... or safety. The publisher and the editor(s) disclaim responsibility for any injury to persons or property resulting from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. 2023 Patient-facing digital health tools Genetics service delivery Genetics Diversity...

... professionals report a lack of policy guidance to support them to overcome practice barriers to identify palliative patients who are eligible for genetic testing, provide genetic counselling, and facilitate genetic testing or DNA storage. Summary: To identify policy recommendations related to (1) integrating...

...Yashoda Sharma; Livia Cox; Lucie Kruger; Veena Channamsetty; Susanne B. Haga Introduction: Increased genomics knowledge and access are advancing precision medicine and care delivery. With the translation of precision medicine across health care, genetics and genomics will play a greater role...

... of health systems. Objective: The objective of this study was to analyze the current state of the use and the level of confidence in genetic management activities in everyday clinical practice of family practitioners (FPs) in Slovenia. Methods: We used a cross-sectional observational study design...

...Jessica L. Bourdon; Rachel A. Davies; Elizabeth C. Long Background: Psychiatric genetics has had limited success in translational efforts. A thorough understanding of the present state of translation in this field will be useful in the facilitation and assessment of future translational progress...

... to doing so. This is the case for direct-acting antivirals (DAAs) for the treatment of hepatitis C virus (HCV). However, little attention has been paid to the increasing role that human genetics might play in rationing decisions. Researchers have already proposed that genetic markers associated...

...Caitlin G. Allen; Brittany Andersen; Muin J. Khoury; Megan C. Roberts Background: The growing availability of genomic information to the public may spur discussion about genetics and genomics on social media. Sites, including Twitter, provide a unique space for the public to access and discuss...

... Cancer Risk prediction Genetics Advances in omics (e.g., genomics, epigenetics, meta-genomics) open new opportunities for risk prediction and risk-based screening interventions [ 1, 2 ]. Omics-based risk factors (e.g., genetic mutation, genetic and epigenetic variations) could be combined...

...Ainsley J. Newson; Jane Tiller; Louise A. Keogh; Margaret Otlowski; Paul Lacaze Background: Regulating the use of genetic information in insurance is an issue of ongoing international debate. In Australia, providers of life and other mutually rated insurance products can request applicants...

... groups, publications in the last 10 years, educational programs, and related national cancer control policies. Currently, there are 221 NGS platforms and 118 research groups in LA developing cancer genomics projects. A total of 272 articles in the field of cancer genetics/genomics were published...

...Nadeem Bilani; Michael Dagher; Nathalie K. Zgheib Purpose: As precision medicine continues its expansion into clinical practice and research settings, it is time to investigate genetic and genomic research in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region to identify the strengths and deficits...

...Travis Hyams; Deborah J. Bowen; Celeste Condit; Jeremy Grossman; Megan Fitzmaurice; Deborah Goodman; Lari Wenzel; Karen L. Edwards Background: The practice of biorepository-based genetics research raises questions related to what ethical obligations researchers have to their participants...

...Duaa Olwi; Leena Merdad; Eman Ramadan Background: Genetic testing has been gradually permeating the practice of medicine. Health-care providers may be confronted with new genetic approaches that require genetically informed decisions which will be influenced by patients' knowledge of genetics...

.... Methods: A total of 450 participants were recruited from a cancer genetics registry, including cancer patients, their relatives, and controls. Participants completed a secure online survey. Results: Most participants endorsed re-consent when investigating an unrelated health condition or sharing their de...

... to in the content or advertisements. India, one of the most populated countries in the world, with several ethnolinguistic groups, presents a significant challenge to implement translational genome-based medicine due to its genetically heterogeneous population [ 5,6 ]. Apart from geographical and linguistic...

...Ambroise Wonkam; Valentina Josiane Ngo Bitoungui; Jeanne Ngogang Management of sickle cell disease (SCD) in Africa needs to be accompanied by various preventive strategies, including early detection via prenatal genetic diagnosis (PND). Contrary to Cameroonian doctors who considered termination...

...Isabelle Budin-Ljøsne; Jennifer R. Harris Background: Personalized medicine (PM) aims to offer tailored health care to individuals on the basis of their genetic profile. This paper explores the types of behaviors and practices that citizens are expected to adopt under PM, examines whether...

...A. Ferlini; C. Scotton; G. Novelli Background: Nowadays 7,000 rare diseases (RDs) have been identified with a prevalence less than 5/10,000. Despite of the enormous effort the European Union (EU) has already invested in this field, still 4,000 RDs remain orphan of genetic diagnosis and causative...

... and individual susceptibility factors. This review focuses on current knowledge of the genetic factors that undoubtedly play a major role in influencing the development of vCJD. In terms of genetic susceptibility, the best characterised is the common single nucleotide polymorphism at codon 129 of the human prion...

... and the editor(s) disclaim responsibility for any injury to persons or property resulting from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Genetics Hype Media Science communication There has been substantial concern articulated about ‘science hype...