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This project will explore the breadth of current efforts to structure public health practice to respond to advances in genetics, analyzing these efforts for their consistency with existing public…

The broad goal of the research proposal is to identify factors that either promote or inhibit the development, by scientists, of new genetic technologies relevant to health care and to consider the…

Stigma and discrimination are recognized as potentially important social consequences of advances in genetic information. This broadly conceived study of stigma will focus on public attitudes,…

This study will examine how the public conceptualizes human genetic mechanisms and interprets and uses this information. The major goals of this study are to 1) document the general character of the…

This project addresses the ethical, legal, and social implications of Alzheimer's disease (AD) genetics from the critical perspective of a group at high risk for the disease: currently…

The long term goal of this project is to improve patient understanding about breast cancer risk and genetic testing. This project will conduct a clinical trial to evaluate the effectiveness of a CD-…

The purpose of this study is to determine how the prospect of direct benefit to research subjects in gene transfer research (GTR) (usually called 'gene therapy') is understood and discussed…

Project Summary/Abstract - The Risk Evaluation and Education for Alzheimer's Disease (REVEAL) Study is an ongoing series of multi-site randomized controlled trials that provide empirical data to…

The Risk Evaluation and Education for Alzheimer's Disease (REVEAL) Study is an ongoing, multi-site research project that is designed to evaluate the psychological and behavioral impact of…

Genes and other biological markers are rapidly being identified that can provide presymptomatic estimates of risk for the eventual development of late-onset diseases. There is widespread public…