Genomics and Health Weekly Update 2009

Genetics in Medicine

August 2009, Volume 11, Issue 8

Review

• The Scientific Foundation for Personal Genomics: Recommendations from a National Institutes of Health–Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Multidisciplinary Workshop
  Muin J. Khoury, MD, PhD; Colleen M. McBride, PhD; Sheri D. Schully, PhD; John P. A. Ioannidis, MD, PhD; W Gregory Feero, MD, PhD; A Cecile J. W. Janssens, PhD; Marta Gwinn, MD, MPH; Denise G. Simons-Morton, MD, PhD; Jay M. Bernhardt, PhD; Michele Cargill, PhD; Stephen J. Chanock, MD; George M. Church, PhD; Ralph J. Coates, PhD; Francis S. Collins, MD, PhD; Robert T. Croyle, PhD; Barry R. Davis, MD, PhD; Gregory J. Downing, PhD, DO; Amy DuRoss, MBA; Susan Friedman, DVM; Mitchell H. Gail, PhD; Geoffrey S. Ginsburg, MD, PhD; Robert C. Green, MD, MPH; Mark H. Greene, MD; Philip Greenland, MD; Jeffrey R. Gulcher, MD, PhD; Andro Hsu, PhD; Kathy L. Hudson, PhD; Sharon L. R. Kardia, PhD; Paul L. Kimmel, MD; Michael S. Lauer, MD; Amy M. Miller, PhD; Kenneth Offit, MD, MPH; David F. Ransohoff, MD; J Scott Roberts, PhD; Rebekah S. Rasooly, PhD; Kari Stefansson, MD; Sharon F. Terry, MA; Steven M. Teutsch, MD; Angela Trepanier, MS; Kay L. Wanke, PhD, MPH; John S. Witte, PhD; Jianfeng Xu, MD, DrPH
  

Commentary

• Direct to consumer genetic testing: Avoiding a culture war
  James P. Evans, MD, PhD; Robert C. Green, MD, MPH
• Evaluating the utility of personal genomic information
  Morris W. Foster, PhD; John J. Mulvihill, MD; Richard R. Sharp, PhD
• Personal utility and genomic information: Look before you leap
  Scott D. Grosse, PhD; Colleen M. McBride, PhD; James P. Evans, MD, PhD; Muin J. Khoury, MD, PhD
• Personalized medicine and disruptive innovation: Implications for technology assessment
  Kevin A. Schulman, MD; Ana Valverde Vidal, MBA; D Clay Ackerly, MD

Articles

• Characteristics of users of online personalized genomic risk assessments: Implications for physician-patient interactions
  Colleen M. McBride, PhD; Sharon Hensley Alford, PhD; Robert J. Reid, MD, PhD; Eric B. Larson, MD, MPH; Andreas D. Baxevanis, PhD; Lawrence C. Brody, PhD
• Evaluation of risk prediction updates from commercial genome-wide scans
  Raluca Mihaescu, MD; Mandy van Hoek, MD; Eric J. G. Sijbrands, MD, PhD; André G. Uitterlinden, PhD; Jacqueline C. M. Witteman, PhD; Albert Hofman, MD, PhD; Cornelia M. van Duijn, PhD; A Cecile J. W. Janssens, PhD

Letter to the Editor

• Health care provider and consumer awareness, perceptions, and use of direct-to-consumer personal genomic tests, United States, 2008
  Katherine Kolor, PhD, MS, CGC; Tiebin Liu, MSPH; Jeanette St. Pierre, MA, MPH; Muin J. Khoury, MD, PhD