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Cancer
Camouflaging of viral DNA could be crucial step in progression of cancers, Medical News Today, February 11	Physicians from the Burzynski Clinic present initial results of..., Medical News Today, February 8
Gene controllers crucial for cancer spread, News-Medical.Net, February 11	New genes involved in acute lymphoblastic leukemia play..., Basque Research, February 6
New understanding of how leukemia develops, News-Medical.Net, February 9	Gene study finds link to cancer of thyroid, The New York Times, February 6

Trends in Pharmacogenomic Epidemiology: 2001-2007 Guessous I, et al. Public Health Genomics 2009;12(3):142-8

Host Genetic Determinants of HIV Infection and Disease Progression in Children
Singh KK & Spector SA
Pediatr Res 2009 Jan

Testing Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium using mother-child case-control samples
Chen J, et al.
Genet Epidemiol 2009 Feb

From a Genetic Predisposition to an Interactive Predisposition: Rethinking the Ethical Implications of Screening for Gene-Environment Interactions
Tabery J
J Med Philos 2009 Feb

Developing a curriculum statement based on clinical practice: genetics in primary care
Burke S, et al.
Br J Gen Pract 2009 Feb;59(559):99-103

Chromosome 8p as a potential hub for developmental neuropsychiatric disorders: implications for schizophrenia, autism and cancer
Tabares-Seisdedos R & Rubenstein JL
Mol Psychiatry 2009 Feb

A neurologist's guide to genome-wide association studies
Mullen SA, et al.
Neurology 2009 Feb;72(6):558-65

Progress in searching for the febrile seizure susceptibility genes
Nakayama J
Brain Dev 2009 Feb

Candidate Endophenotypes for Genetic Studies of Suicidal Behavior
Mann JJ, et al.
Biol Psychiatry 2009 Feb

 

Hereditary colorectal cancer in the gastroenterology clinic: how common are at-risk patients and how do we find them?
Dudley-Brown S & Freivogel M
Gastroenterol Nurs 2009 Jan-2009 Feb;32(1):8-16

Polymorphisms in TP53 and MDM2 combined are associated with high grade endometrial cancer
Ashton KA, et al.
Gynecol Oncol 2009 Feb

A method to assess the clinical significance of unclassified variants (UVs) in the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes based on cancer family history
Gomez Garcia EB, et al.
Breast Cancer Res 2009 Feb;11(1):R8

 

Pharmacogenetics of Tamoxifen: Who Should Undergo CYP2D6 Genetic Testing?
Higgins MJ, et al.
J Natl Compr Canc Netw 2009 Feb;7(2):203-13

Clinician Perspectives about Molecular Genetic Testing for Heritable Conditions and Development of a Clinician-Friendly Laboratory Report
Lubin IM, et al.
J Mol Diagn 2009 Feb

Detection of Epidermal Thickening in GJB2 Carriers with Epidermal US
Guastalla P, et al.
Radiology 2009 Feb

Increasing the number of diagnostic mutations in malignant hyperthermia
Levano S, et al.
Hum Mutat 2009 Feb

Five families living with hereditary breast and ovarian cancer risk
Norris J, et al.
Clin J Oncol Nurs 2009 Jan;13(1):73-80

Interpretation of genetic association studies: markers with replicated highly significant odds ratios may be poor classifiers
Jakobsdottir J, et al.
PLoS Genet 2009 Feb;5(2):e1000337

Racial distribution of patient population and family physician endorsed importance of screening patients for inherited predisposition to cancer
J Health Care Poor Underserved 2009 Feb;20(1):50-4

Sequence variants affecting eosinophil numbers associate with asthma and myocardial infarction
Gudbjartsson DF, et al.
Nat Genet 2009 Feb

Genome-wide association studies in an isolated founder population from the Pacific Island of Kosrae
Lowe JK, et al.
PLoS Genet 2009 Feb;5(2):e1000365

Genome-wide association study identifies NRG1 as a susceptibility locus for Hirschsprung's disease
Garcia-Barcelo MM, et al.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2009 Feb

A two-stage genome-wide association study of sporadic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
Chio A, et al.
Hum Mol Genet 2009 Feb

Common variants on 9q22.33 and 14q13.3 predispose to thyroid cancer in European populations
Gudmundsson J, et al.
Nat Genet 2009 Feb

Genome-wide haplotype association study identifies the SLC22A3-LPAL2-LPA gene cluster as a risk locus for coronary artery disease
Tregouet DA, et al.
Nat Genet 2009 Feb

Genome-wide association of early-onset myocardial infarction with single nucleotide polymorphisms and copy number variants
Kathiresan S, et al.
Nat Genet 2009 Feb

New susceptibility locus for coronary artery disease on chromosome 3q22.3
Erdmann J, et al.
Nat Genet 2009 Feb

 

Testing...DOI is 10.1158_1055-9965.EPI-08-8888
Stevens VL, et al.
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2008;17(12):3517-25

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