Risk assessment, genetic counseling, and genetic testing for BRCA-related cancer in women: a systematic review to update the US Preventive Services Task Force …

HD Nelson, M Pappas, B Zakher… - Annals of internal …, 2014 - acpjournals.org
Background: Mutations in breast cancer susceptibility genes (BRCA1 and BRCA2) are
associated with increased risks for breast, ovarian, and other types of cancer. Purpose: To …

Risk assessment, genetic counseling, and genetic testing for BRCA-related cancer in women: updated evidence report and systematic review for the US Preventive …

HD Nelson, M Pappas, A Cantor, E Haney, R Holmes - Jama, 2019 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Pathogenic mutations in breast cancer susceptibility
genesBRCA1andBRCA2increase risks for breast, ovarian, fallopian tube, and peritoneal …

Risk assessment, genetic counseling, and genetic testing for BRCA-related cancer in women: US Preventive Services Task Force recommendation statement

VA Moyer… - Annals of internal …, 2014 - acpjournals.org
Description: Update of the 2005 US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF)
recommendation on genetic risk assessment and BRCA mutation testing for breast and …

Essentially biased: Why people are fatalistic about genes

SJ Heine, I Dar-Nimrod, BY Cheung, T Proulx - Advances in experimental …, 2017 - Elsevier
We propose that people are genetic essentialists—that is, they tend to think of genetic
attributions as being immutable, of a specific etiology, natural, and dividing people into …

[HTML][HTML] Impute. me: an open-source, non-profit tool for using data from direct-to-consumer genetic testing to calculate and interpret polygenic risk scores

L Folkersen, O Pain, A Ingason, T Werge… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
To date, interpretation of genomic information has focused on single variants conferring
disease risk, but most disorders of major public concern have a polygenic architecture …

[HTML][HTML] Consumers report lower confidence in their genetics knowledge following direct-to-consumer personal genomic testing

DA Carere, P Kraft, KA Kaphingst, JS Roberts… - Genetics in …, 2016 - Elsevier
Purpose The aim of this study was to measure changes to genetics knowledge and self-
efficacy following personal genomic testing (PGT). Methods New customers of 23andMe and …

Risk assessment, genetic counseling, and genetic testing for BRCA-related cancer: systematic review to update the US Preventive Services Task Force …

HD Nelson, R Fu, K Goddard, JP Mitchell… - 2013 - pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Purpose To review new evidence on the benefits and harms of risk assessment, genetic
counseling, and genetic testing for BRCA-related cancer in women for the US Preventive …

Addressing overuse of health services in health systems: a critical interpretive synthesis

ME Ellen, MG Wilson, M Vélez, R Shach… - Health research policy …, 2018 - Springer
Background Health systems are increasingly focusing on the issue of 'overuse'of health
services and how to address it. We developed a framework focused on (1) the rationale and …

Correlates of unrealistic risk beliefs in a nationally representative sample

EA Waters, WMP Klein, RP Moser, M Yu… - Journal of behavioral …, 2011 - Springer
Unrealistically optimistic or pessimistic risk perceptions may be associated with maladaptive
health behaviors. This study characterized factors associated with unrealistic optimism (UO) …

A pilot randomized clinical trial evaluating the impact of genetic counseling for serious mental illnesses

C Hippman, A Ringrose, A Inglis… - The Journal of …, 2016 - legacy.psychiatrist.com
Objective: The serious mental illnesses schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, and bipolar
disorder are complex conditions affecting 1% to 4% of the population. Individuals with …