Thednaexchange - thednaexchange.com - The DNA Exchange
General Information:
Latest News:
Bye-Bye Bi-Polar: A New Nosology for Psychiatric Disease — What Does It Mean for Genetic Counseling? 8 May 2013 | 05:50 pm
Tom Insel, director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), roiled the world of psychiatry in a blog post (how very 21st Century of him!). The post concerned the revised Diagnostic and Sta...
And Bob’s Your Uncle: A Guide To Defining Great Aunts, Great-Great Grandparents, First Cousins Once-Removed, and Other Kinfolk 17 Apr 2013 | 03:40 am
When genetic counselors attend family reunions, their unofficial job becomes Namer-of-Relationships. “Keith, you and I are first cousins once-removed. Viola is my great aunt. Margo, you are my mother’...
Customer Disservice? 10 Apr 2013 | 12:50 pm
“Words used carelessly, as if they did not matter in any serious way, often allowed otherwise well-guarded truths to seep through.” ― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul Vocabulary is ne...
Morality and Reality: Two Arguments in Favor of the Recommendations for Return of Incidental Findings Released by the ACMG 3 Apr 2013 | 04:36 pm
Recently, the ACMG released recommendations for return of incidental findings following genome or exome sequencing, garnering a great deal of attention in the science media and some in the popular me...
What New Laws in North Dakota Tell Us About the Anti-Abortion Movement in 2013 19 Mar 2013 | 03:24 pm
Follow abortion law long enough, and you will begin to appreciate its Talmudic qualities. Figuring out what the literal meaning is only the beginning. For a deeper understanding, you must decode the...
VARIATIONS IN A MINOR KEY: SOME THOUGHTS ON PRENATAL TESTING IN AN ERA OF WHOLE GENOME SEQUENCING 14 Mar 2013 | 02:54 am
James Watson is many things – geneticist, Nobel laureate, agent provocateur – but in the realm of psychiatry he is first and foremost the parent of a son with schizophrenia. So when he spoke in 2007 ...
Screening Everyone For Everything: A Changing Model of Screening For Carrier Status of Genetic Diseases? 20 Feb 2013 | 04:52 pm
The heterozygote carrier screening paradigm is starting to shift from ancestry based screening for carriers of a single or a few genetic diseases to pan-ethnic screening for carriers of a wide rang...
The Resta Paradox: On The Perception of The Likelihood of Rare Events 30 Jan 2013 | 10:42 pm
Genetic counselors – and their clients – tend to make a big to-do about numbers. We expend a disproportionate amount of energy calculating, reciting, and explicating numbers such as the complication ...
When Masters Degrees Roamed the Earth 25 Jan 2013 | 05:06 pm
This is the second post in our Clinical Doctorate series. The first post can be found at Are Masters Degrees Going Extinct? The informal clinical doctorate survey in the DNA Exchange last summer pro...
Guest Post: Breaking the Glass Ceiling, by Heather Hampel and Dawn Staley 17 Jan 2013 | 04:33 am
Do you hear that sound? It is the sound of hundreds of genetic counselors bumping their heads into the glass ceiling that our Master’s degrees can cause, particularly in academia. For Heather, her fi...
