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    Supporting teachers to use genomics as a context in the classroom: an evaluation of learning resources for high school biology

    As genomics becomes embedded into healthcare, public genomic health literacy is critical to support decision-making for personal and family health decisions and enable citizens to engage with related social is...

    Lauren McKnight, Angela Pearce, Amanda Willis in Journal of Community Genetics (2021)

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    Oncologists’ perspectives of telephone genetic counseling to facilitate germline BRCA1/2 testing for their patients with high-grade serous ovarian cancer

    Poly ADP ribose polymerase (PARP) inhibitors offer a survival advantage to women with high-grade serous ovarian cancer who have a germline BRCA1/2 pathogenic variant (PV). Yet, rates of genetic testing among this...

    Pierre Hemming, Rajneesh Kaur, Bettina Meiser in Journal of Community Genetics (2021)

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    A framework for youth-friendly genetic counseling

    Young people represent a unique cohort in the context of both healthcare and genetic risk. Genetic counselors have long recognized and documented the challenges of working with young people and their families ...

    Mary-Anne Young, Kate Thompson, Jeremy Lewin, Lucy Holland in Journal of Community Genetics (2020)

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    High-risk women’s risk perception after receiving personalized polygenic breast cancer risk information

    Evidence is accumulating of the clinical utility of single nucleotide polymorphisms to effectively stratify risk of breast cancer. Yet for this personalized polygenic information to be translated to clinical p...

    Laura Elenor Forrest, Sarah Dilys Sawyer, Nina Hallowell in Journal of Community Genetics (2019)

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    Consumer attitudes towards the establishment of a national Australian familial cancer research database by the Inherited Cancer Connect (ICCon) Partnership

    Clinical genetics units hold large amounts of information which could be utilised to benefit patients and their families. In Australia, a national research database, the Inherited Cancer Connect (ICCon) databa...

    Laura Forrest, Gillian Mitchell, Letitia Thrupp in Journal of Community Genetics (2018)

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    Timing and context: important considerations in the return of genetic results to research participants

    General consensus exists that clinically significant germline genetic research results should be fed back to research participants. A body of literature is emerging about Australian research participants’ expe...

    Kate A. McBride, Nina Hallowell, Martin H. N. Tattersall in Journal of Community Genetics (2016)