Genomics and Health Resources (A - Z)

Genomics plays a role in nine of the Ten Leading Causes of Death in the United States, most notably chronic diseases such as cancer and heart disease. These diseases are partly the result of how genes interact with environmental and behavioral risk factors, such as diet and physical activity.

The interaction between our genes, behavior, infections, and the environment can lead to many diseases. Family health history information can also help to identify people who may have a higher risk for certain diseases. Better understanding of genetic and family health history information can help practitioners identify, develop, and evaluate screening and other interventions that can improve health and prevent disease. Individuals can contribute to their health by keeping records of their family health information and sharing this information with their doctor and with other family members.In addition, a variety of genome-based tools and tests are increasingly becoming available in practice.

In this section we highlight alphabetically specific diseases and other topics for which we have specific information and/or are featured in the CDC Genomics and Health Impact Weekly Update. New links will be added regularly. If you are unable to find a specific resource, or would like to submit a resource for consideration, please contact genetics@cdc.gov.

A

• Aortic Aneurysm (July 20, 2015)
• Achalasia (May 18, 2015)
• Acne (February 17, 2015)
• Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (June 1, 2015)
• Acute Myeloid Leukemia (August 28, 2015)
• Addiction (June 29, 2015)
• Adoptees (April 27, 2015)
• Age-related macular degeneration (March 30, 2015)
• Aging (May 1, 2015)
• Alcohol and Alcoholism (May 28, 2015)
• Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency (May 6, 2015)
• Alzheimer’s Disease (August 27, 2015)
• Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (June 1, 2015)
• Antidepressants (May 22, 2015)
• Antimicrobial Resistance (August 13, 2015)
• Asthma (June 10, 2015)
• Aspergillosis (July 2, 2015)
• Aspirin (July 20, 2015)
• Assisted Reproductive Technology (March 25, 2015)
• Atrial Fibrillation (June 22, 2015)
• Attention Deficit Hyperactiviy Disorder (August 10, 2015)
• Autoimmune Disorders (August 24, 2015)
• Autism Fact Sheet (April 4, 2013)
• Autism (September 1, 2015)

B

• Barrett's Esophagus (July 20, 2015)
• Beryllium (March 6, 2015)
• Big Data and Genomics (August 19, 2015)
• Biobanks (August 4, 2015)
• Bioinformatics (September 1, 2015)
• Birth Defects and Disabilities (August 4, 2015)
• Blog (June 2, 2015)
• Blood Disorders (October 2, 2014)
• Bloom Syndrome (Feburary 23, 2015)
• Bourbon Virus (February 24, 2015)
• Brain Cancer (August 21, 2015)
• Breast and Ovarian Cancer Fact Sheet (June 17, 2014)
• Breast and Ovarian Cancer (August 31, 2015)
• Breast Cancer in Men (May 22, 2015)
• Brugada Syndrome (August 26, 2015)

C

• Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacteriaceae (February 23, 2015)
• Cancer Epidemiology (May 22, 2015)
• Cancer Genomics and Precision Medicine (September 2, 2015)
• Cancer Genomic Tests (September 1, 2015)
• Cancer Progression & Heterogeneity (August 7, 2015)
• Cancer Screening (August 12, 2015)
• Cancer Survivorship (July 6, 2015)
• Cancer, Head and Neck (February 13, 2015)
• Carrier Testing (February 17, 2015)
• Causes of Cancer (August 10, 2015)
• Causes of Death (November 6, 2014)
• Celiac Disease (August 4, 2015)
• Cerebral Palsy (August 4, 2015)
• Cervical Cancer (May 6, 2015)
• Chagas Disease (August 4, 2015)
• Child Health (October 2, 2014)
• Childhood Cancer (September 1, 2015)
• Chickenpox and Varicella Zoster (August 24, 2015)
• Chikungunya (July 28, 2015)
• Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (July 1, 2015)
• Chronic Kidney Disease (June 30, 2015)
• Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (May 14, 2015)
• Clinical Utility (March 13, 2015)
• Clopidogrel (February 9, 2015)
• Clostridium Difficile (April 21, 2015)
• Colorectal Cancer Fact Sheet (March 7, 2013)
• Colorectal Cancer (August 26, 2015)
• Competencies for Genomics and Public Health (March 9, 2010)
• Congenital Heart Disease (August 21, 2015)
• Copy Number Variants (June 10, 2015)
• Consanguinity (July 1, 2015)
• Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease and Prion Diseases  (July 1, 2015)  
• Cryptosporidiosis (May 1, 2015)
• Cyclospora Outbreaks (August 22, 2013)
• Cystic Fibrosis (September 2, 2015)
• Cytomegalovirus (June 29, 2015)

D

• Data and Statistics (February 15, 2015)
• Data Sharing (June 17, 2015)
• Death (Leading Causes) (November 6, 2014)
• Deafness & Hearing Loss (July 31, 2015)
• Deep Vein Thrombosis (June 1, 2015)
• Dengue (May 15, 2015)
• Dental Care and Oral Health (April 27, 2015)
• Depression (August 25, 2015)
• Development and Psychopathology (February 9, 2015)
• Developmental Disabilities (July 15, 2015)
• Diabetes, Type 2 (June 9, 2015)
• Diabetes, Type 1 (July 14, 2015)
• Diabetes (Maturity Onset of the Young) (October 30, 2014)
• Diagnosing Bacterial vs Viral Infections (June 2, 2015)
• Diet (March 2, 2015)
• Direct to Consumer Genomics (September 2, 2015)
• DNA Day (April 25, 2015)
• Down Syndrome (August 19, 2015)
• Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (August 19, 2015)

E

• Eating Disorders (March 13, 2015)
• Ebola (August 10, 2015)
• E. Coli (August 20, 2015)
• Economics of Genomic Medicine (March 9, 2015)
• Education (August 4, 2015)
• Electronic Health Records (September 1, 2015)
• Endometriosis (December 11, 2014)
• Enterovirus D68 (August 17, 2015)
• Epidemiology (July 22, 2015)
• Epigenetics (August 31, 2015)
• Epigenomics August 31, 2015)
• Epilepsy (August 25, 2015)
• Ethical, Legal and Social Issues (June 26, 2014)
• Evaluation of Genomic Applications in Practice and Prevention (EGAPP) (February 25, 2013)
• Events (December 11, 2014)
• Evidence-based Pharmacogenomics (March 4, 2015)
• Exposome (May 20, 2015)
• Eye Disease and Healthy Vision (June 29, 2015)

F

• Familial Hypercholesterolemia (September 2, 2015)
• Family History Page (November 20, 2014)
• Family Health History (May 14, 2015)
• Food Safety (September 2, 2015)
• Fragile X Syndrome (July 22, 2015)

G

• Gastric Cancer (April 21, 2015)
• Gastrointestinal Cancers (February 9, 2015)
• Gaucher Disease (August 28, 2014) 
• Gene-Environment Interaction (January 8, 2015)
• Gene Therapy (September 1, 2015)
• Genetics Basics (September 5, 2014)
• Genetic and Genomic Testing (March 18, 2015)
• Genetic Counseling & Public Health (August 31, 2015)
• Genetic Counseling (August 7, 2015)
• Genome Editing (September 1, 2015)
• Genomic Revolution (July 31, 2015)
• Genomic Sequencing (Human) (August 24, 2015)
• Genetic Testing (July 20, 2015)
• Genetic Testing of Children (July 6, 2015)
• Genomic Testing Page  (June 28, 2013)
• Genomic Tests by Level of Evidence (May 11, 2015)
• Genomics in Africa (June 4, 2015)
• Genomics in Practice (August 19, 2015)
• Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (June 29, 2015)
• Glaucoma (January 12, 2015)
• Global Health (January 30, 2014)
• Gout (March 23, 2015)
• Guidelines and Recommendations (April 23, 2015)
• Guillain-Barré (October 9, 2014)

H

• Head and Neck Cancers (February 13, 2015)
• Health Disparities (September 2, 2015) 
• Health Literacy (October 16, 2014)
• Healthy People 2020 (June 5, 2014)
• Healthy Vision (May 21, 2014)
• Hearing Loss & Deafness (July 31, 2015)
• Heart Disease Fact Sheet (February 7, 2014)
• Heart Disease (September 1, 2015)
• Heart Disease, Congenital (August 21, 2015)
• Heart Disease and Nutrition (July 2, 2014)
• Hemophilia (July 30, 2015)
• Hereditary Hemochromatosis (August 11, 2015)
• Hepatitis (July 27, 2015)
• High Blood Pressure (August 24, 2015)
• Hispanic/Latino Heritage (October 2, 2014)
• HIV/AIDS Genomics (July 1, 2015)
• Homozygous Familial Hypercholesterolemia (June 4, 2015)
• Hospital Outbreaks of Infectious Diseases (July 28, 2015)
• Human Genome Epidemiology (February 9, 2015)
• Human Genome Epidemiology Page (January 29, 2013)
• Human Genome Epidemiology Navigator (January 29, 2013)
• Human Papilloma Virus (January 23, 2015)
• Huntington Disease (September 1, 2015)
• Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy (May 8, 2014)
• Hypertension (May 6, 2015)

I

• Iceland (May 1, 2015)
• Immunization Awareness (August 14, 2014)
• Implementation (March 21, 2014)
• Incidental Findings (August 18, 2015)
• Individualized Prevention (July 2, 2014)
• Infant Mortality (September 18, 2014)
• Infertility (April 20, 2015)
• Inflammatory Bowel Disease (July 20, 2015)
• Inflammasomes (July 1, 2015)
• Influenza (August 10, 2015)
• Informatics (September 1, 2015)
• Informed Consent (March 16, 2015)
• Irritable Bowel Syndrome (March 9, 2015)

K

• Kidney Cancer (March 23, 2015)
• Klebsiella (July 30, 2015)

L

• Laboratory Developed Tests (April 3, 2015)
• Lassa Fever (May 26, 2015)
• Leading Causes of Death (November 6, 2014)
• Legionnaires' Disease (July 31, 2015)
• Leprosy (February 3, 2015)
• Li-Fraumeni Syndrome (June 11, 2015)
• Listeria (May 6, 2015)
• Lithium (May 26, 2015)
• Liver Cancer (June 10, 2015)
• Long QT Syndrome (August 26, 2015)
• Lung Cancer (September 2, 2015)
• Lyme Disease (April 29, 2015)
• Lymphoma (July 21, 2015)
• Lynch Syndrome (August 26, 2015)

M

• Macular Degeneration (May 28, 2015)
• Malaria (April 24, 2015)
• Marfan Syndrome (May 18, 2014)
• Measles (July 10, 2015)
• Melanoma (August 20, 2015)
• Men's Health (August 26, 2015)
• Mendelian Randomization (September 3, 2015)
• Meningococcal Disease (April 21, 2015)
• Mental Health Fact Sheet (April 10, 2012)
• Mental Health (May 18, 2015)
• Metabolomics (August 19, 2015)
• MERS Virus (July 27, 2015)
• Metformin (March 10, 2015)
• Metagenomics (March 6, 2015)
• Methylmalonic Acidemia (August 17, 2015)
• Microbiome (August 13, 2015)
• Minority Health (September 2, 2015)

• Mitochondrial Genetics (July 24, 2014)
• Mitral Valve Prolapse (August 24, 2015)
• Mosquito-borne Disease (August 31, 2015)
• Multiple Myeloma (February 27, 2014)
• Multiple Sclerosis (August 25, 2015)
• Muscular Dystrophy (August 4, 2015)
• Myasthenia Gravis (February 9, 2015)
• Myopia (March 23, 2015)

N

• National DNA Day (April 25, 2015)
• Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (March 11, 2015)
• Newborn Screening (July 27, 2015)
• Newborn Screening Page
• Next-Generation Sequencing Policy Analysis (October 2, 2014)
• Norovirus (July 31, 2015)
• Nutrigenomics (May 18, 2015)
• Nursing (July 1, 2015)

O

• Obesity Fact Sheet (May 10, 2013)
• Obesity (August 25, 2015)
• Occupational Exposure (March 16, 2015)
• Omics and Epidemiology (July 2, 2014)
• One Health (August 19, 2015)
• Opioid (July 8, 2015)
• Optogenetics (June 1, 2015)
• Oral Health and Dental Care (April 27. 2015)
• Osteogenesis Imperfecta (May 6, 2015)
• Osteoporosis Fact Sheet (May 19, 2014)
• Osteoporosis (May 18, 2015)
• Ovarian Cancer (August 17, 2015)
• Oversight of Genomic Medicine (July 8, 2015)

P

• Painkiller Overdose (February 13, 2015)
• Pain Sensitivity (May 26, 2015)
• Pancreatic Cancer (August 24, 2015)
• Pancreatitis (March 18, 2015)
• Parkinson's Disease (August 24, 2015)
• Pathogen Genomics (August 17, 2015)
• Peanut Allergy (February 27, 2015)
• Periodontal Disease (March 6, 2015)
• Personal and Direct to Consumer Genomics (September 2, 2015)
• Personalized Medicine (May 20, 2015)
• Pertussis (August 21, 2015)
• Pharmacogenomics (August 26, 2015)
• Physician Competency (Feburary 9, 2015)
• Placebo Effect (July 6, 2015)
• Placenta (June 18, 2015)
• Pneumonia (November 19, 2014)
• Phenylketonuria (May 4, 2015)
• Podcasts (October 14, 2014)
• Polio (July 28, 2015)
  
• Polycystic Kidney Disease (August 4, 2015)
• Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (May 18, 2015)
• Prader-Willi Syndrome (January 23, 2015)
• Precision Medicine (August 28, 2015)
• Precision Public Health (March 2, 2015)
• Precision Prevention (March 9, 2015)
• Prediabetes (March 12, 2015)
• Prehypertension (February 20, 2015)
• Preimplantation Genetic Testing (February 23, 2015)
• Prematurity (November 13, 2014)
• Prenatal Testing (September 2, 2015)
• Prevention (March 9, 2014)
• Primary Immunodeficiency Disorders (June 25, 2015)
• Progeria (June 1, 2015)
• Prostate Cancer (July 31, 2015)
• Provider Education (May 1, 2014)
• Psoriasis (May 5, 2015)
• Psychiatric Diseases (May 18, 2015)
• Public Health Emergency Response (July 15, 2014)
• Public Health Action (August 18, 2015)

R

• Rare Diseases (August 13, 2015)
• Recommendation and Guidelines (April 23, 2015)
• Registries and Surveillance (August 28, 2014)
• Regulation of Genomic Medicine (June 10, 2015)
• Reports and Publications (July 16, 2015)
• Reproducibility (June 9, 2015)
• Respiratory Syncytial Virus (December 30, 2014)
• Retinoblastoma (August 31, 2015)
• Rett Syndrome (March 4, 2015)
• Rheumatoid Arthritis (June 24, 2015)
• Rotavirus (June 24, 2015)
• Rubella (March 5, 2015)

S

• Salmonella (August 24, 2015)
• Salt Intake (September 18, 2014)
• Schistosomiasis (June 24, 2015)
• Schizophrenia (August 21, 2015)
• Screening (January 20, 2015)
• Seizures & Immunization (October 30, 2014)
• Sepsis (May 14, 2015)
• Severe Combined Immune Deficiency (June 25, 2015)
• Shigella (April 3, 2015)
• Sickle Cell Disease (April 1, 2015)
• Skin Cancer (May 26, 2015)
• Sleep Disorders (July 1, 2015)
• Smoking and Public Health (July 17, 2015)
• Spina Bifida (May 1, 2015)
• Stahylococcus Aureus, Methicillin Resistant (May 29, 2015)
• State Map of Public Health Genomics Activities (April 28, 2014)
• Statins (March 25, 2015)
• Stevens-Johnson Syndrome (April 30, 2015)
• Stillbirth (June 26, 2015)
• Stroke Fact Sheet (April 8, 2013)
• Stroke (May 7, 2015)
• Sudden Cardiac Death (September 2, 2015)
• Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (October 16, 2014)
• Suicide (March 2, 2015)
• Surveillance & Registries (January 20, 2015)
• Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (July 20, 2015)

T

• Telegenetics (July 15, 2015)
• Telomeres and Health (July 13, 2015)
• Testicular Cancer (December 11, 2014)
• Thalassemia (May 5, 2015)
• Thyroid Cancer (July 8, 2015)
• Toolkit for Public Health Genomics (March 6, 2014)
• Tourette Syndrome (June 2, 2015)
• Toxigenomics (May 18,2015)
• Translation Page (June18, 2012)
• Translation (August 3, 2015)
• Tuberculosis (August 21, 2015)

V

• Venous Thromboembolism (June 24, 2015)
• Videocasts (May 15, 2015)
• Von Willebrand Disease (August 28, 2015)

W

• Warfarin (August 11, 2015)
• Winnable Battles in Public Health (April 20, 2015)
• Wiskott-Aldrich Syndrome (April 22, 2015)
• Whole Genome Sequencing (August 24, 2015)
• Women's Health (May 12, 2015)
• World Cancer Day (March 4, 2015)
• West Nile Virus (August 18, 2015)

Y

• Year in Review ( December 18, 2014)