A New Issue of Journal of the American Medical Association is Now Available

March 26, 2008

Journal of the American Medical Association (Vol. 299 No. 11, March 19, 2008) is now available by subscription only.

Articles include:
“How to Interpret a Genome-wide Association Study” by Thomas A. Pearson; Teri A. Manolio, 1335-1344
“Epigenetics at the Epicenter of Modern Medicine” by Andrew P. Feinberg, 1345-1350
“Genetics and Genomics for Clinicians” by Phil B. Fontanarosa; Boris Pasche; Catherine D. DeAngelis, 1364-1365
“Genetics: the Basics” by Janet M. Torpy; Cassio Lynm; Richard M. Glass, 1388

Commentaries
“The Genome Gets Personal—Almost” by W. Gregory Feero; Alan E. Guttmacher; Francis S. Collins, 1351-1352
“Genomic Profiles for Disease Risk: Predictive or Premature?” by Kenneth Offit, 1353-1355
“Key Internet Genetics Resources for the Clinician” by Wendy R. Uhlmann; Alan E. Guttmacher, 1356-1358
“Centralized Biorepositories for Genetic and Genomic Research” by Geoffrey S. Ginsburg; Thomas W. Burke; Phillip Febbo, 1359-1361

Medical News & Perspectives
“New Screening Tool Reveals Genes Essential for Cancer Cells’ Survival” by Tracy Hampton, 1247-1248
“Randy L. Jirtle, PhD: Epigenetics a Window on Gene Dysregulation, Disease” by Bridget M. Kuehn, 1249-1250
“Researchers Create Artificial DNA Bases” by Tracy Hampton, 1251
“Intellectual Disability” by Joan Stephenson, 1252

Book and Media Reviews
“Principles of Developmental Genetics” by Martin Cheung; Danny Chan, 1366-1367
“Gene Therapy” by J. L. Mehta, 1367
“Gene Therapy for Cancer” by Prem Seth, 1367-1368
“Babies by Design: The Ethics of Genetic Choice” by Tony Miksanek, 1368-1369
“Enhancing Evolution: The Ethical Case for Making Better People” by John Collins Harvey, 1369-1370
“The Ethics of Bioethics: Mapping the Moral Landscape” by Alexander A. Kon, 1370-1371