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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"Genetic tests"”.
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What makes personalized medicine work? : an empirical analysis of the role of product attributes, medical professional societies and patient groups in the diffusion of four breast cancer genetic tests
… have experienced its benefits through the use of genetic tests that provide decision support for health care workers regarding the likely effectiveness of specific drugs and, more broadly, the urgency of particular treatment options (for example, chemoprevention versus prophylactic surgery). …
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An ultra-high throughput mutational spectrometer for human genetic diagnostics
Discovering the genetic causes of common diseases may require scanning for mutations in all of the genes in a million people, a significant undertaking. Such discoveries would revolutionize biotechnology, potentially enabling simple genetic tests for risk and targeted preventative or therapeutic …
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The ELSI Research Program and Genetic Nondiscrimination Legislation: A Study in Science and Public Poilicy
… is an increase in both the number and range of genetic tests available. Although there is enormous value in the knowledge gained from information that predicts present or future disease, there are also some risks. This thesis, based on the content analysis of genetic nondiscrimination …
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Essays on insurance markets
… such as gender, race, or the outcomes of genetic tests are undesirable, since the distributional goals of these restrictions can be accomplished more efficiently by employing social insurance.
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Knowledge, attitudes, and practise toward cancer genetic testing among healthcare workers in the oncology clinic at Sultan Qaboos Comprehensive Cancer and Research Center (SQCCCRC)
… forms of cancer. Due to the shortage of genetic counsellors and medical geneticists in Oman, there is a need to involve other healthcare workers in oncology clinics in the genetic testing process. As there is no prior research on healthcare worker readiness to conduct these services, this …
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A novel compound heterozygous NEB mutationin Korean patients with intellectual disability, epilepsy,and acongenital myopathy
… onset. I performed several conventional genetic tests to detect chromosomal aberrations, gene copy number variations, and candidate gene and mitochondrial gene mutations. After finding no abnormality ,I conducted whole exome sequencing (WES)in this family. After filtering the WES data, I …
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Four Essays on Technological and Organizational Change in Health Care
… status which may be acquired, for instance, by genetic tests, may be declined by individuals who fear a breakdown of will. This finding has important implications for the disclosure of information by physicians and for the information acquisition policy of insurers.
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A rhetorical analysis of patient decision aids for genetic testing: Scientific knowledge, embodiment, and problematic integration in biomedicine
… help people decide whether they should request genetic tests. I sample a genre of non-commercial patient decision aids that I term gateway documents developed by representatives of teaching hospitals, patient advocacy groups, professional biomedical organizations, and government entities to …
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Efficacy of Genetic Testing Methodologies for Prenatal Detection of Skeletal Anomalies and Craniosynostosis Syndromes
… most informative in making a diagnosis. Prenatal genetic testing ranges from screening tests using cell-free fetal DNA to diagnostic tests which include next generation sequencing panels and whole exome or genome sequencing. We aimed to determine which prenatal genetic tests were capable of …
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Privacy Concerns About Genetic Testing: Does Ethnicity Matter?
<p>The direct-to-consumer genetic testing market is predicted to reach $340 million by 2020 (Seward, 2018). DTC genetic tests (DTC-GTs) are DNA kits purchased and taken by consumers in their homes to learn about their ancestry, trait/disease propensity, etc. Although, many companies state in their …
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Texas Physicians' Awareness and Utilization of Genetic Services
<p>The number of disorders for which genetic testing is available has increased nearly 500% in the past 15 years. Access to the majority of genetic tests and services hinges on physicians’ ability to identify patients at risk for genetic disease and provide appropriate testing and counseling or …
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Evaluation of Current Thrombophilia Screening Practices of Internists, Family Physicians, and Obstetricians/Gynecologists: Factor V Leiden Genetic Testing and Referral Patterns
… such as the American College of Medical Genetics (ACMG) and the College of American Pathologists (CAP), have published recommendations about the optimal time to test individuals for FVL by mutation analysis. Multiple studies have shown inconsistencies in the ability of physicians to …
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From bench to bedside, to track and field: The context of enhancement and its ethical relevance
… The second chapter discusses applying genetic technologies from bendh to bedside, analysing: the objections to reprogenetics grounded in 'eugenics'; and, how pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) and other embryonic genetic screening techniques, as well as genetic tests sold online …
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Disclosure of Genetic Information for Personalized Nutrition and Change in Dietary Intake
Background: Personal genetic information has become increasingly accessible as a result of consumer genetic tests. Proponents claim that the information may motivate positive behavioural changes aimed at chronic disease prevention, however, the effects of disclosing genetic information on dietary …
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Assessment of the suitability of blood samples collected for toxicological analysis for subsequent genetic analysis: A follow-up study one year later
… the medical/social history. This may be due to genetic alterations with drug metabolism and it has been suggested that genetic analyses may be the next step in these cases. However, toxicology results from the National Forensic Chemistry Laboratory in the Western Cape may be delayed by months to …
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The development of a new genetic test for grapevine cultivars using a computational genomics approach
… while some have the same name but are genetically different (homonym) or having different names but are genetically identical (synonyms). Genetic tests based on the use of simple single repeat (SSR), or short tandem repeats (STR) markers have been developed to determine the genetic …
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Testes de nutrigenética: aplicações na prevenção e tratamento da obesidade
… and/or treatment of obesity, with nutrigenetics (NT) testing. Therefore, this thesis is divided into two chapters, aiming to evaluate whether NT can be used to prevent and/or treat obesity. In the first chapter, a narrative review was carried out to show the current panorama of obesity …
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Συγκριτική μελέτη και αξιολόγηση της υιοθέτησης της γενετικής και της φαρμακογονιδιωματικής στην ελληνική κοινωνία
Η υπηρεσία γενετικής και φαρμακογονιδιωματικής ανάλυσης έχει τη δυνατότητα να εξασφαλίσει τη βέλτιστη θεραπεία και την καλύτερη χρήση φαρμακευτικής αγωγής σε έναν αυξανόμενο αριθμό ασθενειών, ενώ η εξατομικευμένη και η γονιδιωματική ιατρική θα γίνουν όλο και πιο χρήσιμες με αποτέλεσμα τη σταδιακή …
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Cystic fibrosis in children and adolescents in the Western Cape : epidemiological and clinical aspects
Cystic fibrosis (CF) is an autosomal recessive genetic disease caused by mutations on chromosome 7 in the gene for the CFTR protein. This gene encodes for a chloride channel on the apical surface of certain epithelial cells. The clinical manifestations of CF largely arise out of the resultant …
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