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Community Genetics: a new discipline and its application in Brazil Genética Comunitária: uma nova disciplina e sua aplicação no Brasil

Cadernos de Saúde Pública, 2000
Community genetics is a new discipline which aims to provide genetic services to the community as a whole. As a science, community genetics encompasses all research needed to develop and evaluate its application. There is no question that the development
Antonio Sérgio Ramalho, Roberto Benedito de Paiva e Silva   +1 more
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Home testing for COVID-19: lessons from direct to consumer genetics

, 2020
This article is made available for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source.
Halverson, Colin, Wilson, Theodore E.
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Implementing non-invasive prenatal testing for aneuploidy in a national healthcare system: global challenges and national solutions

BMC Health Services Research, 2017
Background Since the introduction of non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT) in 2011, mainly by commercial companies, a growing demand for NIPT from the public and healthcare professionals has been putting pressure on the healthcare systems of various ...
Rachèl V. van Schendel, Carla G. van El, Eva Pajkrt, Lidewij Henneman, Martina C. Cornel   +4 more
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Opportunities and inherent limits of using environmental DNA for population genetics

Environmental DNA, 2023
Molecular techniques using DNA retrieved from community or environmental samples, in particular environmental DNA (eDNA), are becoming increasingly popular for detecting individual species, assessing biodiversity, and quantifying ecological indices. More
Marjorie Couton, Frédérique Viard, Florian Altermatt   +2 more
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Community genetics: 1998-2009…and beyond. [PDF]

J Community Genet, 2010
In recent years, public health genomics has been introduced in the scientific literature as a new endeavour, aiming at the translation of genome-based knowledge and technologies into health interventions and public policies for the benefit of public health (Brand and Brand 2006; Zimmern and Stewart 2006; Gwinn and Khoury 2006).
Stemerding D.
europepmc   +5 more sources

Genetics and insurance in the United Kingdom 1995-2010: the rise and fall of scientific discrimination [PDF]

, 2012
Around the millennium there was extensive debate in the United Kingdom of the possible use of predictive genetic tests by insurance companies. Many insurance experts, geneticists and public policymakers appeared to believe that genetic test results would
Thomas, R. Guy
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Suggested components of the curriculum for nurses and midwives to enable them to develop essential knowledge and skills in genetics

, 2012
Nurses and midwives need to develop specific knowledge and skills in genetics to enable them to offer appropriate healthcare in a range of non-specialist settings.
Heather Skirton, Fulya Teksen, Teksen, F,, Skirton, H,, Rebecka Pestoff, Barnoy, S,, Williams, J,, Jessica Williams, Pestoff, Rebecka,, Erdem, Y,, Charlotta Ingvoldstad, Yurdagul Erdem, Sivia Barnoy, Ingvoldstad, C,   +13 more
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Tunisia: Communities and Community Genetics

Public Health Genomics, 2008
The population of Tunisia rose from 2.7 millions before the Second World War to 10,074,951 in 2005. Modern Tunisians are the descendents of indigenous Berbers and of people from various civilizations that were assimilated into the population over the centuries. Since its independence in 1956, Tunisia has enjoyed a stable political regime.
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Building a Population Representative Pediatric Biobank: Lessons Learned From the Greater Cincinnati Childhood Cohort

Frontiers in Public Health, 2021
Background: Biobanks can accelerate research by providing researchers with samples and data. However, hospital-based recruitment as a source for controls may create bias as who comes to the hospital may be different from the broader population.Methods ...
Lisa J. Martin, Liza Bronner Murrison, Melinda Butsch Kovacic, Melinda Butsch Kovacic   +3 more
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Hospitalization Through Families’ Eyes: Comparing Inpatient Care Quality for Children With Sickle Cell Disease and Cystic Fibrosis in Canada

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a chronic, inherited hemoglobinopathy that requires frequent hospitalization for disease‐related complications. Canadian data on inpatient care is limited. This study compared caregiver‐reported hospital experiences of children with SCD to those with cystic fibrosis (CF), a chronic, autosomal recessive ...
Hailey M. Zwicker, Kyle Kemp, Perri Tutelman, Sharon H. J. Hou, Paul Fairie, Maria Santana, Gregory M. T. Guilcher, Taryn Fay‐McClymont, Glenda Bendiak, Wendy Pelletier, Nicola Wright, Fiona Schulte   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source