Personal genetic information

Precision medicine (PM) can be defined as a predictive, preventive, personalized, and participatory healthcare service delivery model. Recent developments in molecular biology and information technology make PM a reality today through the use of massive amounts of genetic, ‘omics’, clinical, environmental, and lifestyle data.

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Molecular measurements of the genome, the transcriptome, and the epigenome, often termed multi-omics data, provide an in-depth view on biological systems and their integration is crucial for gaining insights in complex regulatory processes.

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Part 2 book "Stanfield's introduction to health professions" includes content: Social workers, genetic counselors, health education, health services administration, emergency medical technicians and paramedics, radiation technology, diagnostics and related technology, respiratory care practitioners, clinical laboratory personnel; massage therapists and recreational therapists; health information personnel; medical and nursing assistants; home, personal, and psychiatric aides,... and other contents.

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Privacy-related concerns can prevent equitable participation in health research by US Indigenous communities. However, studies focused on these communities’ views regarding health data privacy, including systematic reviews, are lacking.

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Genomic global positioning system (GPS) applies the multilateration technique commonly used in the GPS to genomic data. In the framework we present here, investigators calculate genetic distances from their samples to reference samples, which are from data held in the public domain, and share this information with others.

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Genetic maps have been fundamental to building our understanding of disease genetics and evolutionary processes. The gametes of an individual contain all of the information required to perform a de novo chromosome-scale assembly of an individual’s genome, which historically has been performed with populations and pedigrees.

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Classifcation of diseases based on genetic information is of great significance as the basis for precision medicine, increasing the understanding of disease etiology and revolutionizing personalized medicine.

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Estimation of individual ancestry from genetic data is useful for the analysis of disease association studies, understanding human population history and interpreting personal genomic variation. New, computationally efficient methods are needed for ancestry inference that can effectively utilize existing information about allele frequencies associated with different human populations and can work directly with DNA sequence reads.

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Understanding the genetics underlying the heritable subphenotypes of sickle cell anemia, specific to each population, would be prognostically useful and could inform personalized therapeutics.

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The trend based on human information processing adds managerial decision-making to the design of the control systems, valuating the organisation’s psychosocial aspects-The research works in this line share the introduction of the principles of behavioural and cognitive psychology for analysing the factors that affect the quality of individual decisions.

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Search engines remain popular—and users are more satisfied than ever with the quality of search results—but many are anxious about the collection of personal information by search engines and other websites. Most search users disapprove of personal information being collected for search results or for targeted advertising The Pew Internet & American Life survey in February 2012 included several questions probing how respondents feel about search engines and other websites collecting information about them and using it to either shape their search results or target advertising to them.

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Anatomy, Physiology, and Pathophysiology for Allied Health, first edition, is an introductory book to the body systems for medical assisting students. It acquaints students with basic information about all of the body systems. The book speaks directly to the student, with chapter introductions, case studies, and chapter summaries written to engage the student’s attention. When referring to patients in the third person, we have alternated between passages that describe a male patient and passages that describe a female patient.

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The ability to distinguish individuals from events (e.g., hospital admis- sions) is a key feature of a cancer registry. Thus, the registry should have sufficient information on each individual to avoid multiple registrations of the same subject. The most universal and generally used identifier is the name. The utility of using names will vary depending on local cus- tom. For instance, surname (or family name) may not be used—persons may be known only by their first name. Individuals may change their name when they get married or for other social reasons.

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The sequencing of the human genome has generated excitement about the potential of genomic innovations to improve medical care, preventive and community health services, and public health. Until fairly recently, genetic information was used primarily in the diagnosis of relatively rare genetic diseases, such as cystic fibrosis and Huntington’s Disease, but a transformation in the use of genetic and genomic information is under way. Genetic markers of increased risk for such chronic diseases as diabetes and coronary artery disease have been identified.

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Fortunately, Social Security continues to provide families with a basic level of income security. It prevents millions of Americans from slipping into poverty when their working years are over because, like a pension, Social Security provides Americans with an income stream that they cannot outlive. However, Social Security was never meant to be people’s sole source of retirement income.

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In extreme cases of mental disability, substituted judgment may be appropriate when a severe emotional disturbance or cognitive impairment compromises an individual’s ability to give informed consent. Any restriction or denial of decision-making author- ity to a disabled woman should be the consequence of an objective procedure, con- taining proper legal safeguards against every form of abuse. This procedure must be based on an evaluation of the capability of the mentally disabled person by qualified experts, subject to periodic review and to appeal.

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The survey was conducted in two phases. In the first phase, the survey covered the basic population information and community environment of the sample units, whereas the second involved the knowledge, attitude and practices of women of childbearing age in regards to childbirth, contraception and repro- ductive health, their demands for family planning and services related to daily life and production. In the first phase of the survey, a probability proportional sampling method was adopted to sort out 1041 sample units in 337 counties/ cities/districts across the country.

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The Wisconsin Family Health Survey (FHS) collects information about health insurance coverage, health status, health problems and use of health care services among Wisconsin residents. This survey began in 1989 and has been conducted annually since then. This report is based on responses collected in 2008, the same year that the BadgerCare Plus health insurance program was implemented (February 2008). The survey results presented in this report are representative of Wisconsin household residents, who constitute approximately 97 percent of all persons residing in the state.

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Environmental and lifestyle risk factors provide a piece of the risk assessment puzzle as well, but since they change over time and are often difficult to measure, they don’t provide all of the information. Lastly, genetic risk factors can be measured accurately and do not change over time. Since genetic data is personalized, this kind of risk assessment may provide additional incentive to change behavior. As more genetic risk factors are being identified, it is clear that their effects on disease risk are just as significant as the effects of environment and family history.

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