Volume 19 Issue 7, July 2017

News Briefs

Laboratory and clinical genomic data sharing is crucial to improving genetic health care: a position statement of the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics

• ACMG Board of Directors

Genome editing in clinical genetics: points to consider—a statement of the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics

• ACMG Board of Directors

Genetics/genomics education for nongenetic health professionals: a systematic literature review

• Divya Talwar
• Tung-Sung Tseng
• Lei-Shih Chen

Transthyretin V122I (pV142I)* cardiac amyloidosis: an age-dependent autosomal dominant cardiomyopathy too common to be overlooked as a cause of significant heart disease in elderly African Americans

• Joel N. Buxbaum
• Frederick L. Ruberg

The Precision Medicine Initiative’s All of Us Research Program: an agenda for research on its ethical, legal, and social issues

• Pamela L. Sankar
• Lisa S. Parker

Medical genetics and genomics education: how do we define success? Where do we focus our resources?

• Robin L Bennett
• Darrel Waggoner
• Miriam G Blitzer

Population screening for BRCA1/BRCA2 founder mutations in Ashkenazi Jews: proactive recruitment compared with self-referral

• Sari Lieberman
• Ariela Tomer
• Ephrat Levy-Lahad

The value of genetic testing: beyond clinical utility

• Barbara Lerner
• Nell Marshall
• Maren T. Scheuner

Evaluating the quality of Marfan genotype–phenotype correlations in existing FBN1 databases

• Kristian A. Groth
• Yskert Von Kodolitsch
• Claus H. Gravholt

The clinical utility of DNA-based screening for fetal aneuploidy by primary obstetrical care providers in the general pregnancy population

• Glenn E. Palomaki
• Edward M. Kloza
• Geralyn M. Lambert-Messerlian

Assigning clinical meaning to somatic and germ-line whole-exome sequencing data in a prospective cancer precision medicine study

• Arezou A. Ghazani
• Nelly M. Oliver
• Nikhil Wagle

Clinical utility of next-generation sequencing for inherited bone marrow failure syndromes

• Hideki Muramatsu
• Yusuke Okuno
• Seiji Kojima

Genome sequencing and carrier testing: decisions on categorization and whether to disclose results of carrier testing

• Patricia Himes
• Tia L. Kauffman
• Katrina A.B. Goddard

A curated gene list for reporting results of newborn genomic sequencing

• Ozge Ceyhan-Birsoy
• Kalotina Machini
• Heidi L. Rehm

Participant-perceived understanding and perspectives on pharmacogenomics: the Mayo Clinic RIGHT protocol (Right Drug, Right Dose, Right Time)

• Janet E. Olson
• Carolyn R. Rohrer Vitek
• Suzette J. Bielinski

The collaborative African genomics network training program: a trainee perspective on training the next generation of African scientists

• Busisiwe C. Mlotshwa
• Savannah Mwesigwa
• Sununguko W. Mpoloka

PhenX measures for phenotyping rare genetic conditions

• Michael Phillips
• Tracey Grant
• Carol M. Hamilton

Public variant databases: liability?

• Adrian Thorogood
• Robert Cook-Deegan
• Bartha Maria Knoppers