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Public Health Genomics

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Public health genomics

The future is built today!

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Die Integration genombasierten Wissens in Forschung, Politik und Praxis von Public Health wird eine der größten Herausforderungen für unsere Gesundheitssysteme darstellen. In diesem Kontext trägt Public Health Genomics (PHG) als verantwortungsvolle und effektive Umsetzung genombasierten Wissens und genombasierter Technologien in die Gesundheitspolitik und Gesundheitsversorgung entscheidend zur Verbesserung der Gesundheit der Gesamtbevölkerung bei. Die verschiedenen Public-Health-Akteure sind gefordert, diese Innovationen, die aus Bereichen wie Systembiologie, Epigenomik, Integrativer Genomik, Umwelt-Genomik-Interaktionen resultieren, zeitnah in personalisierte und zielgruppenorientierte Interventionen zu integrieren. Insbesondere die aktuellen Ergebnisse aus der Systembiologie stellen bereits heute klassische Krankheitsklassifikationen wie etwa die ICD10, populationsbezogene genetische Screenings oder auch epidemiologische Modelle wie traditionelles HTA infrage. Das Public Health Genomics European Network (PHGEN) erfüllt diese Aufgabe der Translationsforschung in Europa.

Abstract

The task of public health genomics (PHG) has become a challenge for all healthcare systems having major implications for future research and policy strategies. The various stakeholders in public health play a key role in translating the implications of genomics such as deriving from systems biology, epigenomics, integrative genomics or genome-environmental interactions. Recent advances in systems biology indicate that specific cellular functions are infrequently carried out by single genes, but rather by groups of cellular components. This network-based research is already starting to change nosology as well as to challenge population-based genetic screening or epidemiological methods like HTA. This knowledge will not only enable clinical interventions but also health promotion messages and disease prevention programs to be targeted at susceptible individuals as well as subgroups of the population (personalized healthcare). So far there has been no systematic integration of genome-based knowledge and technologies into public health research, policy, and practice. Thus, the public health agenda demands a vision that reaches beyond the research horizon to arrive at application and health impact of these innovations. The Public Health Genomics European Network (PHGEN) aims to fulfill this task in Europe.

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Dieser Artikel ist ein Ergebnis des Public Health Genomics European Network (PHGEN), welches im Public Health Programm der Europäischen Kommission (Projekt Nummer: 2005313) gefördert wird. Das Folgeprojekt PHGEN II beginnt in Kürze. Gleichwohl entspricht die beschriebene Sichtweise der der Autoren.

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  1. Head of the Department of Social Medicine, Director of the European Centre for Public Health Genomics (ECPHG), Faculty of Health; Medicine and Life Sciences (FHML), Maastricht University, Universiteitssingel 40, 6229, Maastricht, Niederlande

    A. Brand MD PhD MPH, N. Rosenkötter & T. Schulte in den Bäumen

  2. Department of International Health, Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences (FHML), Maastricht University, Maastricht, Niederlande

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Brand, A., Rosenkötter, N., Schulte in den Bäumen, T. et al. Public Health Genomics. Bundesgesundheitsbl. 52, 665–676 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00103-009-0875-8

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