
Managing Health in the Genomic Era
A Guide to Family Health History and Disease Risk
Description
Key Features
- Presents a practical, accessible resource for primary care providers, allied health professionals, pharmacologists, public health professionals, students and clinical researchers
- Addresses genetic and genomic approaches in managing patient health, conducting and analyzing family health histories, and assessing adult disease risk
- Features an expert author team with direct experience integrating genetics and genomics in primary care and family medicine settings
- Examines the attributes and limitations of family health history, genetic testing, and genomic testing in clinical practice
- Includes detailed explanations following practice-based examples
Readership
Clinical and translational researchers; non-geneticist physicians, in particular pediatricians, primary care providers, family medicine doctors, internists, general practitioners, obstetricians and gynecologists, oncologists; pharmacists; pharmacologists; medical students and residents in various specialties; healthcare administrators and affiliates; genetic counselors
Table of Contents
1. The growing medical relevance and value of family health history
2. Family health history’s place in genomic medicine
3. The connection between genetic variation,family health history, and disease risk
4. Family-specific genetic variants: Principles, detection, and clinical interpretation
5. Genes and cancer: Implications for FHH analysis
6. Using family health history to identify and reduce modifiable disease risks
7. Technology for family health history and collection and analysis
8. Family health history and genetic counseling
9. Current and future trends in diagnostics and treatment
10. Current and future trends to integrate family health history with clinical programs to improve population health
Product details
- No. of pages: 238
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2020
- Published: June 27, 2020
- Imprint: Academic Press
- eBook ISBN: 9780128160169
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128160152
About the Authors
Vincent Henrich
Affiliations and Expertise
Lori Orlando
Affiliations and Expertise
Brian Shirts
Affiliations and Expertise
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