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Genomic Risk Information for Common Health Conditions: Maximizing Kinship-Based Health Promotion

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Handbook of Genomics and the Family

Part of the book series: Issues in Clinical Child Psychology ((ICCP))

Abstract

The completion of the sequence of the human genome is rapidly increasing knowledge about the role of genetics in common health conditions. Scientific experts predict that the products that derive from this knowledge will lead to far-reaching advancements in public health and medicine in the decades to come (Lango & Weedon, 2007). Family health history and new genetic susceptibility tests, henceforward referred to as genetic risk assessments, may hold promise particularly for primary prevention of common health conditions (Collins, Meiser, Gaff, St. John, & Halliday, 2005). These “tools” have the potential advantage over other risk assessments of considering the complex gene–environment and gene–gene interactions that underlie disease risk. Moreover, they augur a future in which increasingly individualized risk information will be available.

The views expressed in this chapter are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the National Institutes of Health, the Department Health and Human Services, or the US Government.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    See http://familyhistory.hhs.gov

  2. 2.

    See http://www.childwelfare.gov

  3. 3.

    See http://www.genome.gov/26525384

  4. 4.

    See http://www.genetests.org

  5. 5.

    The Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of the National Human Genome Research Institute: http://www.genome.gov/24519851

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We would like to thank an anonymous reviewer and Kenneth P. Tercyak for their comments on an earlier version of this chapter. This chapter was supported by funding from the Intramural Research Program of the National Human genome Research Institute. No statement in this article should be construed as an official position of the National Human Genome Research Institute, NIH, or the Department of Health and Human Services.

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Koehly, L.M., Mcbride, C.M. (2010). Genomic Risk Information for Common Health Conditions: Maximizing Kinship-Based Health Promotion. In: Tercyak, K. (eds) Handbook of Genomics and the Family. Issues in Clinical Child Psychology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-5800-6_17

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