CDC Priorities in Hemochromatosis, 2001

• Create web-based hemochromatosis teaching module for health care providers
• Create an on-line patient education brochure
• Complete inter-laboratory comparisons for serum iron measures
• Recommend diagnostic test cut-points
• Examine appropriateness of universal screening
• Expand US prevalence estimates for hemochromatosis and associated morbidity/mortality
• Describe clinical course of illness 
  

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Human Diseases Result from Gene-Environment Interactions

“If all factors that determine disease are taken into account, then 100% of disease can be said to be inherited. Analogously, 100% of any disease is environmentally caused.”
Kenneth Rothman, Modern Epidemiology, 1986

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Pharmacogenomics "Drugs by Design?"

In the very near future, primary care physicians will routinely perform genetic tests before writing a prescription because (they will) want to identify the poor responders.”
F. Collins (AAFP Annual Meeting, 1998)

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Developing a Public Health Genetics Research Agenda, Science for Public Health Action

• Assessment
  • Human Genome Epidemiology

• Policy Development
  • Policy/Communication Research

• Assurance
  • Health Services & Outcomes Researc

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From Gene Sequencing and Discovery to Public Health Action

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