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Genomic discoveries to clinical applications: Are we reaching an inflection point toward precision medicine?

a collage of four image: whole genome sequencing, a hand holding a pen pointing to DNA, a two people in a lab, doctor showing documents to a patient, DNA in the midddle and a family superimposed over all five images

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 something of the overall flavor of the commercial space’s focus. During the next two poster sessions I cruise all of the Read More >

Posted on by W. Gregory Feero, MD, PhD, Maine Dartmouth Family Medicine Residency
Categories precision medicine
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Recommendations and Reality: What Personal Stories of Hereditary Cancer Can Tell Us

four photos of Sarah, Dave, Zac and Gloria (reading order starting top left)

In public health and clinical medicine, recommendations for interventions are generally based on the evidence supporting improved health outcomes. Studies that inform these recommendations often focus on the evidence for benefits, especially when those benefits include lives saved. The harms that affect quality of life are more challenging to quantify and sometimes go unmeasured. Recommendations Read More >

Posted on by Ridgely Fisk Green, Carter Consulting, Inc., and Office of Public Health Genomics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and Katrina Trivers, Division of Cancer Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention1 Comment
Categories breast cancer, cancer, genomics
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