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From CDC-Authored Genomics Publication Database

This database contains CDC-authored publications in public health genomics including infectious diseases, newborn screening, reproductive health, genetic testing, cancer, chronic diseases, birth defects and developmental disabilities, environmental and occupational health as well as laboratory, bioinformatics and statistical methods.

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• Improvements in ability to detect undiagnosed diabetes by using information on family history among adults in the United States.  
  Yang Quanhe et al. American journal of epidemiology 2010 May 171(10) 1079-89
• A case control study on family history as a risk factor for herpes zoster and associated outcomes, Beijing, China.  
  Suo Luodan et al. BMC infectious diseases 2017 May 17(1) 334
• Announcement: National Family History Day - November 24, 2016.  
  et al. MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report 2016 Nov 65(46) 1305
• CDC Grand Rounds: Family History and Genomics as Tools for Cancer Prevention and Control.  
  Rodriguez Juan L et al. MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report 2016 Nov 65(46) 1291-1294
• A cancer genetics toolkit improves access to genetic services through documentation and use of the family history by primary-care clinicians.  
  Scheuner Maren T et al. Genet. Med. 2014 Jan 16(1) 60-9

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