• Recommendations on Patenting and licensing in genetic testing: ethical, legal and social issues - new
   
• Final version: Core competences in genetics for health professionals in Europe - update
   
• Recommendations for genetic counselling related to genetic testing - new
   
• First European DNA Day - Essay Contest for High School Students
   
• Newsletter of the European Commission Scientific Committees
   
• Leroy Hood to give the Distinguished Speaker lecture at ESHG 2008 in Barcelona
   
• Letting the Genome out of the Bottle - Will We Get Our Wish?
  NEJM Editorial Warns of Downside to Premature Consumer Genomics Market
  - NEJM Article
  - Article in GenomeWeb Daily News: pdf - online
   

• ESHG Documents
   
• Received Documents

• Annual Meetings Committee (AMC)
   
• Education Committee (EC)
  Recently created Sub-Committees of the EC:
  • Accreditation Committee for Clinical/Medical Geneticists
  • Accreditation Committee Genetic Nurses/Counsellors
  • Accreditation Committee for Laboratory geneticists
   
• Genetics Services Quality Committee
   
• Patenting and Licensing Committee (PLC)
   
• Professional and Public Policy Committee (PPPC)
   
• Scientific Programme Committee (SPC)

Preliminary Programme,
Registration
are available

Abstract Submission is closed.

• EJHG Online Access for Members
   
• This month's featured articles (Volume 16, No.5, April 2008)

REVIEWS
Searching for genes influencing a complex disease: the case of coeliac disease

The success of the genome-wide association approach: a brief story of a long struggle

ARTICLES
A splice-site mutation and overexpression of MYO6 cause a similar phenotype in two families with autosomal dominant hearing loss

The genetic architecture of fasting plasma triglyceride response to fenofibrate treatment

Familial deletion within NLGN4 associated with autism and Tourette syndrome

Evaluation of coverage variation of SNP chips for genome-wide association studies

RECOMMENDATIONS
Patenting and licensing in genetic testing: ethical, legal and social issues

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The Fourth Meeting of the Presidents of the National Human Genetics Societies will take place during the Annual Meeting of the ESHG on June 2, 2008, 11.15 - 13.15 hrs, Room 129+130, CCIB Congress Center, Barcelona, Spain. - New

Information on previous NHGS meetings can be found here.
 

Genetics in Europe: information about human/medical genetics in European countries from the series in the ESHG newsletter
 

Formal recognition of medical genetics as a medical specialty in Europe
Draft here as a pdf document.

• The ESHG would like to thank over 1650 participants and 100 exhibitors for attending the meeting as well as the sponsors for their support.
   
• Aaron Ciechanover (Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2004) gave a talk on "Intracellular Protein Degradation: From a Vague Idea thru the Lysosome and the Ubiquitin-Proteasome System and onto Human Diseases and Drug Targeting" in the closing plenary session. Pictures can be found here.
   
• Andrea Ballabio was awarded the ESHG Award 2007.
  Pictures of the awarding ceremony 2007 can be found here.
   
• A list of Young Investigator Awardees of the 2007 Meeting as well as a picture gallery of the awarding ceremony can be found here.

Abstracts from previous European Human Genetics Conferences are available.

- Nice 2007
- Amsterdam 2006
- Prague 2005
- Munich 2004
- Birmingham 2003
- Strasbourg 2002
- Vienna 2001, 10th International Congress of Human Genetics

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