Turkish female immigrants' intentions to participate in preconception carrier screening for hemoglobinopathies in the Netherlands: an empirical study.

abstract：:This paper examines emerging technologies and recent research on population differences in pharmacogenomics and the perspectives of scientists, community advocates, policymakers, and social critics on the use of race as a proxy for genetic variation. The discussion focuses on how recent developments in genomic science...

journal_title：Public health genomics

authors： Lee SS

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:An international workshop on cancer predisposition cascade genetic screening for hereditary breast and ovarian cancer (HBOC) and Lynch syndrome (LS) took place in Switzerland, with leading researchers and clinicians in cascade screening and hereditary cancer from different disciplines. The purpose of the wor...

journal_title：Public health genomics

authors： Nikolaidis C,Ming C,Pedrazzani C,van der Horst T,Kaiser-Grolimund A,Ademi Z,Bührer-Landolt R,Bürki N,Caiata-Zufferey M,Champion V,Chappuis PO,Kohler C,Erlanger TE,Graffeo R,Hampel H,Heinimann K,Heinzelmann-Schwarz V,Kur

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Approximately 20% of all cancers are associated with infectious agents. Among them, human papillomaviruses (HPVs) are very common and are now recognized as the etiological agent of cervical cancer, the second most common cancer in women worldwide, and they are increasingly linked with other forms of dysplasia. Carcino...

journal_title：Public health genomics

authors： Lehoux M,D'Abramo CM,Archambault J

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of the study was to gain new insights into innovation systems by comparing state-of-the-art of existing approaches of innovation creation and innovation management in healthcare and ICT. It is unique, in that it compares countries in Africa with countries in Europe in order to identify similarities and dif...

journal_title：Public health genomics

authors： Schee Genannt Halfmann S,Evangelatos N,Kweyu E,DeVilliers C,Steinhausen K,van der Merwe A,Brand A

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The European Union (EU) policy for healthcare requires the establishment of a system of European Reference Networks, union-wide information databases, and registries for rare diseases (RDs) based on shared criteria. In pursuing its goals, the 'Building Consensus and Synergies for the EU Registration of RD Patients in ...

journal_title：Public health genomics

authors： Taruscio D,Vittozzi L,Choquet R,Heimdal K,Iskrov G,Kodra Y,Landais P,Posada M,Stefanov R,Steinmueller C,Swinnen E,Van Oyen H

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Nutrigenetic tests are often considered to be less serious compared to other health-related genetic tests, although they share similar ethical concerns. Nutrigenetic tests are mainly available through direct-to-consumer genetic testing (DTC GT) and increasing in popularity. OBJECTIVE:To analyze the contents...

journal_title：Public health genomics

authors： De S,Pietilä AM,Iso-Touru T,Hopia A,Tahvonen R,Vähäkangas K

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Family history of cardiovascular disease (CVD) is an independent risk factor for CVD. Therefore, efforts to prevent CVD among asymptomatic persons with a family history are warranted. Little is known about preventive recommendations clinicians offer their patients with a family history of CVD, and adherence ...

journal_title：Public health genomics

authors： Zlot AI,Valdez R,Han Y,Silvey K,Leman RF

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Common obesity-associated genetic variants may exert their effects through increasing eating or decreasing metabolism. Such differences might influence individual responses to obesity genetic test results. METHODS:This was an experimental analogue study: 191 participants were asked to imagine they had recei...

journal_title：Public health genomics

authors： Sanderson SC,Persky S,Michie S

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND/AIMS:Nearly 15% of all ovarian cancer patients carry a germline BRCA mutation. A pilot project was started at IRCCS AOU San Martino--IST, Genoa, to assess the feasibility and consequences of offering genetic counselling to all ovarian cancer patients during routine oncology appointments. We present early res...

journal_title：Public health genomics

authors： Ricci MT,Sciallero S,Mammoliti S,Gismondi V,Franiuk M,Bruzzi P,Varesco L

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Intellectual disability (ID), characterized by impairments in intellectual function and adaptive behavior, affects 1-3% of the population. Many studies investigated its etiology, but few are cohort studies in middle-income countries. AIMS:To estimate prevalence, etiology, and factors related to ID among chi...

journal_title：Public health genomics

authors： Karam SM,Barros AJ,Matijasevich A,Dos Santos IS,Anselmi L,Barros F,Leistner-Segal S,Félix TM,Riegel M,Maluf SW,Giugliani R,Black MM

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:The Public Health Genomics European Network (PHGEN) aimed, among other objectives, to identify the geographical variability and legal barriers of genomic medicine and public health genomics (PHG) at an international market, where the lack of policy coherence may limit its development in Europe. PHGEN supported the...

journal_title：Public health genomics

authors： Gutiérrez-Ibarluzea I,Ibarreta D,Malats N,Spanish National Task Force on Public Health Genomics.

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Research assessing attitudes toward consent processes for high-throughput genomic-wide technologies and widespread sharing of data is limited. In order to develop a better understanding of stakeholder views toward these issues, this cross-sectional study assessed public and biorepository participant attitudes toward r...

journal_title：Public health genomics

authors： Lemke AA,Wolf WA,Hebert-Beirne J,Smith ME

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The current situation of rare disease (RD) registries is rather heterogeneous, and new ways to support the registration of RD patients are being sought in the European Union (EU) and the US. The project 'Building Consensus and Synergies for the EU Registration of RD Patients', funded by the EU, aimed to defi...

journal_title：Public health genomics

authors： Vittozzi L,Gainotti S,Mollo E,Donati C,Taruscio D

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The clinical utility of genetic tests is determined by the outcomes following test use. Like other measures of value, it is often contested. Stakeholders may have different views about benefits and risks and about the importance of social versus health outcomes. They also commonly disagree about the evidence needed to...

journal_title：Public health genomics

authors： Burke W,Laberge AM,Press N

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genome-wide association studies and biobanks are at the forefront of genomics research and possess unprecedented potential to improve public health. However, for public health genomics to ultimately fulfill its potential, technological and scientific advances alone are insufficient. Scientists, ethicists, policy maker...

journal_title：Public health genomics

authors： Pang T

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND/AIMS:Despite the investments being made to develop biobanks, African Americans are under-represented in genomic studies. We identified factors having significant independent associations with intentions to donate personal health information and blood and/or tissue samples to a biobank in a national random sa...

journal_title：Public health genomics

authors： McDonald JA,Vadaparampil S,Bowen D,Magwood G,Obeid JS,Jefferson M,Drake R,Gebregziabher M,Hughes Halbert C

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Individuals with a family history of lung cancer have a two- to threefold increased risk for developing this disease. Family history information may be useful in lung cancer prevention and control approaches, but research is needed regarding how individuals interpret this information. This study examined ass...

journal_title：Public health genomics

authors： Chen LS,Kaphingst KA

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cancer risk assessment should stratify screening and enable preventive health interventions based on individuals' risk of developing cancer. Studies are underway to develop epigenetic tests, including trials investigating women's risk of female-specific cancers. OBJECTIVE:Given potential consequences for qu...

journal_title：Public health genomics

authors： Rebitschek FG,Reisel D,Lein I,Wegwarth O

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Biospecimens are tools that have the potential to improve early identification and treatment for autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and bipolar disorders (BPD). Unfortunately, most biobanks lack racial/ethnic diversity. One challenge to including a diverse sample of youth is recruiting and engaging families. ...

journal_title：Public health genomics

authors： Owen-Smith AA,Sesay MM,Lynch FL,Massolo M,Cerros H,Croen LA

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Diabetes is one of the most common metabolic diseases in humans that cause disruption in glucose and fat metabolism. The determination of the ABO blood group system is hereditary and both diabetes and blood groups have a genetic basis. OBJECTIVES:The aim of this study was to investigate the odds of type 2 d...

journal_title：Public health genomics

authors： Navabi J,Navabi SM,Hemmati N,Shaahmadi Z,Aghaei A

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The past 20 years have witnessed successive and exponential advances in genomic discovery and technology, with a broad scientific imperative pushing for continual advancements. The most consistent critique of these advances is that they have vastly outpaced translation of new knowledge into improvements in p...

journal_title：Public health genomics

authors： McBride CM,Abrams LR,Koehly LM

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Disease outbreak investigation is a key aspect of public health. Whole-genome sequencing of bacterial pathogen based on new generation high-throughput sequencing technologies has facilitated outbreak investigations recently. Whilst the approach has become more affordable and accessible to research and clinic...

journal_title：Public health genomics

authors： Cheung MK,Kwan HS

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Identification of low-income women with the rare but serious risk of hereditary cancer and their referral to appropriate services presents an important public health challenge. We report the results of formative research to reach thousands of women for efficient identification of those at high risk and exped...

journal_title：Public health genomics

authors： Joseph G,Kaplan C,Luce J,Lee R,Stewart S,Guerra C,Pasick R

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The necessity for biobanks to share their resources with third parties poses potential risks to public trust and the intention to participate in genetic research. We explore the effects of data sharing and the type of third-party access (public vs. private) on public trust and, in turn, the intention to part...

journal_title：Public health genomics

authors： Critchley C,Nicol D,Otlowski M

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Addressing the unmet health needs of persons living with congenital anomalies in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC) is a major challenge. Registries and databases are exemplary tools capable to link research data with health programs. Since 2009, Brazil's Craniofacial Project, a multicenter and voluntary research...

journal_title：Public health genomics

authors： Gil-da-Silva-Lopes VL,Fontes MIB,Dos Santos AP,Appenzeller S,Fett-Conte AC,Francisquetti MCC,Monlleó IL

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prenatal/preconceptional and newborn screening programs have been a focus of recent policy debates that have included attention to ethical, legal, and social issues (ELSIs). In parallel, there has been an ongoing discussion about whether and how ELSIs may be addressed in health technology assessment (HTA). We conducte...

journal_title：Public health genomics

authors： Potter BK,Avard D,Entwistle V,Kennedy C,Chakraborty P,McGuire M,Wilson BJ

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Post kala-azar dermal leishmaniasis (PKDL) is a cutaneous form of disease that develops at variable times after individuals have received treatment for clinical visceral leishmaniasis (VL). The study aimed to investigate the possible role of interleukin 10 (IL-10) and development of PKDL. METHODS:77 familie...

journal_title：Public health genomics

authors： Farouk S,Salih MA,Musa AM,Blackwell JM,Miller EN,Khalil EA,Elhassan AM,Ibrahim ME,Mohamed HS

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While personalised cancer medicine holds great promise, targeting therapies to the biological characteristics of patients is limited by the number of validated biomarkers currently available. The implementation of biomarkers has undergone many challenges with few biomarkers reaching cancer patients in the clinic. Ther...

journal_title：Public health genomics

authors： Schneider D,Bianchini G,Horgan D,Michiels S,Witjes W,Hills R,Plun-Favreau J,Brand A,Lawler M,EAPM Working Group for Oncology Clinical Research.

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the cost effectiveness of newborn screening for congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) in the U.S. newborn population. METHODS:We constructed a decision model to estimate the incremental cost-effectiveness ratio (ICER) of CAH screening compared to a strategy of no screening. Two types of cost effecti...

journal_title：Public health genomics

authors： Yoo BK,Grosse SD

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Stakeholders who are committed to bridge the gap in genetics services need to be aware of current initiatives in sub-Saharan Africa. METHODS:We reviewed selected experiences from African geneticists that led to specific recommendations. RESULTS:The initiation of prenatal diagnosis of sickle cell anaemia fo...

journal_title：Public health genomics

authors： Wonkam A,Muna W,Ramesar R,Rotimi CN,Newport MJ

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00