This document from the CDC of genomic competencies is intended to create awareness to pubic health employees to the potential role of genetic information for preventing disease and incorporate them into their public health specialities.
Keyword: evaluation
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Good Laboratory Practices For Biochemical Genetic Testing and Newborn Screening for Inherited Metabolic Disorders
This Morbidity and Mortality Report from the CDC focuses on ensuring and improving the quality of genetic laboratory services and public health outcomes.
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Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA)
From the CDC these laboratory guidelines provide standards to ensure quality biochemical genetic testing and newborn screening. This site contains the laws, regulations, publications and history of these standards.
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Laboratory Services Guide
This manual from the Bureau of Laboratories at the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services was designed to assist in the proper collection and submission of specimens for genetic testing and the interpretation of results.
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http://www.michigan.gov/mdch/0,1607,7-132-2945_5103-15158–,00.html -
Center for Statistical Genetics
The Center for Statistical Genetics at the University of Michigan is an interdisciplinary program which seeks to encourage research and training at the interface between human genetics and the mathematical sciences.
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Online Mendelian Inheritance in Men (OMIM)
OMIM is a comprehensive compilation of human genes and genetic phenotypes. The full-text, referenced overviews, updated daily, contain information on all known Mendelian disorders and over 12,000 genes with a focus on the relationship between phenotype and genotype.
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Genetics Home Reference
This website provides information about the effects of genetic variations on human health with details on genetic conditions, genes, and chromosomes.
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NOVA: Cracking the Code of Life
This two-hour special, hosted by ABC “Nightline” correspondent Robert Krulwich, chronicles the fiercely competitive race to capture one of the biggest scientific prizes ever: the complete letter-by-letter sequence of genetic information that defines human life – the human genome.
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Healthy Woman, Healthy Baby Domestic Violence Fact Sheet
This fact sheet adopted from the California Preconception Care Initiative provides information on how domestic violence can affect a pregnancy.
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Pregnant Women and the Flu: Five things you need to know
This fact sheet provides answers to many common questions involving pregnant women and their potential sensitivity to the flu.
Link to resource:
http://www.flu.gov/at-risk/pregnant/index.html