Purpose: The aim of this article was to determine the accuracy and efficiency of World Wide Web (“Web”) resources to help nongeneticists answer four clinical questions about each of five common ...

Question: Who can benefit from genetic counseling and testing? Answer: People with a previous cancer diagnosis or a family history of cancer or other diseases. A physician or certified genetic ...

Coming to terms with a genetic illness in the family can leave a person with many questions. What does this mean for me? What does this mean for my child? Will my family be affected? Genetic ...

Human Geneticist Dr. Neville Sanjana answers the internet’s burning questions about genetics and DNA. How are our genes related to our DNA? Does our DNA change during our lifetime? How do services ...

Dr. Judy Garber, director of the Cancer Risk and Prevention Program at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, answers listeners' questions about genetic testing. From NPR News, this is All Things ...

Francis S. Collins is the director of the National Institutes of Health and was formerly the director of the National Human Genome Research Institute. Updated April 14, 2014, 9:09 PM Today, obtaining ...

In the not-so-distant future, genetic testing will be a routine part of medical care. Doctors will screen for genes that influence your risk of heart disease, Alzheimer's, or diabetes. They will ...