Resources

• Multifactorial Inheritance and Genetic Disease
  
  
• Genetics of Common Disorders with Complex Inheritance
  
  
• Understanding Autism Through Genetics by Michael J. Dougherty
  
  
• Genome-based prediction of common diseases: advances and prospects 1.A. Cecile J.W. Janssens and Cornelia M. van Duijn, Hum. Mol. Genet. (2008) 17 (R2)
  
  
• Genes, Environment-Lifestyle, and Common Diseases
  
  
• National Human Genome Research Institute at NIH
  Smithonian Institution Activities 2013 National DNA Day
  NHFRI Activities for the USA Science and Engineering Festival
  
  
• The American Society of Human Genetics

Youtube

• How Multifactoral Inheritance is involved in Human Genetics and Reproduction
  
  
• Advanced Classical Genetics (Part 3): Genetic Relationships (Part 2)
  
  
• Multifactorial Inheritance & Common Diseases
  

Learning Tools

• The GeneEd Website
  The National Library of Medicine's genetics, education and discovery website.
  
  
• Dolan DNA Learning Center at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
  A source for timely information about genes in education.

Resources

• S. Lyonnet (2007) En route towards genetic medicine in practice: a clinical genetics guide in the post genomic era
  European Journal of Human Genetics 15, 907-907 doi:10.1038/sj.ejhg.5201864
   
• A Cecile, et al (2011) Strengthening the reporting of genetic risk prediction studies: the GRIPS statement
  European Journal of Human Genetics 19, 833-836 doi:10.1038/ejhg.2011.25
   
• Statement of the ESHG on direct-to-consumer genetic testing for health-related purposes (2010) European Journal of Human Genetics 18, 1271-1273 doi:10.1038/ejhg.2010.129
   
• WG Feero, AE. Guttmacher, FS Collins (2010), Genomic Medicine — An Updated Primer.
  N Engl J Med 2010; 362:2001-2011
   
• National Human Genome Research Institute at NIH
  http://www.genome.gov/10506367
  http://www.genome.gov/27541804
   
• Youtube
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYRrXO_22No
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClhgsZdW2Tg
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72IC1E_oREA
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUq_YVzYZAs&feature=relmfu
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqWuLQJC5dY&feature=related
   
• The American Society of Human Genetics
  http://www.ashg.org/education/everyone.shtml
   
• U.S. National Library of Medicine
  http://www.ghr.nlm.nih.gov/spotlight/dna-day-2012
   
• CB Santos-Reboucas & MMG Pimentel (2006) Implication of abnormal epigenetic patterns for human diseases
  European Journal of Human Genetics 15, 10-17 doi:10.1038/sj.ejhg.5201727
   
• Marcus E Pembrey (2002) Time to take epigenetic inheritance seriously
  European Journal of Human Genetics 10, 669-671 doi:10.1038/sj.ejhg.5200901
   
• M. Esteller (2008) Review Article: Epigenetics in Cancer.
  N ENGL J MED 2008; 358:1148-1159.
   
• Web video resource:
  NOVA | Epigenetics - PBS

Information for Teachers

• Proposal for a “European Network of High School Teachers” (ENHST)
• DNA-Day ... a good starting point to disseminate genetic education in high school B. Zanini, V. Marini, M. Boriello, R. Ravazzolo Poster presented at the European Human Genetics Conference 2011

• Genetic testing and common disorders in a public health framework. Recommendations of the European Society of Human Genetics, Carla G van El and Martina C Cornel on behalf of the ESHG Public and Professional Policy Committee
  European Journal of Human Genetics advance online publication 26 January 2011; doi: 10.1038/ejhg.2010.176
   

• Human Genome Project website: www.ornl.gov
   

• Wellcome Trust/ Sanger Institute: www.yourgenome.org
   

• Genetic Alliance: A guide for patients and healthy professionals: www.geneticalliance.org/understanding.genetics
   

• Genomic Medicine: 'Grand challenges' in the translation of genomics to human health, Geoffrey S Ginsburg
  European Journal of Human Genetics 16, No 8, 873-874 (2008)
   

• Genomic Medicine - A Primer, Alan E. Guttmacher, Francis S. Collins
  The New England Journal of Medicine 347, No 19, 1512-1520 (2002)
   
• A vision for the future of genomics research, Francis S. Collins et al.
  Nature 422, 835-847 (24 April 2003)
   

• James Watson and Francis Crick's classic paper that first describes the double helical structure of DNA
  Nature 171, 737-738 (1953)