Tag: Medical Genetic Summaries (MGS)

Using NCBI resources to research, detect, and treat genetic phenotypes

Clinical Genetics Information at Your Fingertips

NCBI offers a portfolio of medical genetics resources to help you research, diagnose, and treat diseases and conditions. You can easily access our data and tools through the Medical Genetics and Human Variation page of the NCBI website. We also encourage you to join our community of thousands of submitters and share your germline and/or somatic data to advance discovery and optimize clinical care.

How and why should you use our resources? Consider the example below.

Your patient is a 40-year-old mother of two presenting with changes in bathroom habits, bleeding, and belly pain. She has a medical history of colonic polyps. Her family history reveals that her maternal grandmother, mother and uncle had several forms of cancers including colon, breast, and endometrium.

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NCBI at the ACMG meeting in Seattle next week (April 2-6, 2019)

In about a week, NCBI staff will join GeneReviews® on their home turf, Seattle, at the Annual Clinical Genetics Meeting hosted by the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics (ACMG). While there we will have an exhibit booth (#531) where you can meet our staff, get answers to your questions, and pick-up informative handouts on our various resources for clinical practice.

Also, be sure to visit our two posters on Friday, April 5 from 10:30 AM to 12 PM.

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NCBI presents resources for genetic counselors at NSGC 2018

Today, November 8, National Society of Genetic Counselors (NSGC) celebrates the second annual Genetic Counselor Awareness Day. At NCBI, we’ve been working hard to provide and improve resources, such as MedGen, Genetic Testing Registry (GTR), ClinVar, and Medical Genetics Summaries (MGS), to help genetic counselors.

Next week, NCBI staff will be at the NSGC 2018 conference in Atlanta, GA. While there, you can chat in person with us at booth #700 to learn about our medical genetics resources and pick up helpful material. We’d also love to hear any other questions or feedback to help support you.

To stay up-to-date about NCBI staff at NSGC 2018 follow us on Twitter at @NCBI_Clinical ‏and @NCBI. For more information about other NCBI presentations at NSGC, check the Conferences and Presentations page.

Discover GTR at AMP 2018 (Nov 1-3)

Starting this Thursday, November 1^st, NCBI staff from projects like ClinVar, GTR, MedGen, Medical Genetics Summaries and OSIRIS will be ready to hear your feedback at the Association for Molecular Pathology (AMP) 2018 Annual Meeting & Expo in San Antonio, Texas. Come to booth #1810 and tell us how to make our resources better for you or ask questions about how to participate and use these resources!

Staff will also present on their current work at AMP 2018. We will present our analyses of current GTR tests and discuss how GTR data aims to reflect the current genetic testing landscape.

Below is a sneak peek on two different presentations to learn about “The NIH Genetic Testing Registry (GTR): Test Methodologies as a Sensor of the Precision Medicine Environment”:

Poster TT046 – Friday, November 2 from 2:30 – 3:30 PM
Technical Topics Platform Presentation – Saturday, November 3 from 7:45 – 8:00 AM

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NCBI at ASHG 2018: Data and Clinical CoLabs introduce interactive graphical displays and medical genetics resources

As you know, NCBI will be attending American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) 2018 in San Diego.

This year, we have two CoLabs – interactive sessions where you can learn about freely available NCBI tools and resources. Read on below for a description of each CoLab and join us at ASHG in two weeks!

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