Share and learn from personal stories about using or not using
genetic information in personal health care.

 

I’m Jean Jenkins. I’m a nurse and cancer survivor with a dream of building an archive of stories documenting the use of DNA information in personal healthcare. Your experiences can help others navigate this emerging field. Browse or share your story.   

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Genetic testing helped Jean fight lymphoma. Find out more about her story and what led to this project. 

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Choosing the best medication treatment for depression just added a new tool.
Choosing the best medication treatment for depression just added a new tool.

Treatment for depression can be very challenging. Now through pharmacogenomic testing (i.e., knowing how genes affect a person’s response to particular drugs) it may be possible to select the best intervention using GeneSight testing.

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Want to know more about Genetics?
Want to know more about Genetics?

The Genetics Home Reference offers easy-to-read summaries of about 1,200 genetic conditions, more than 1,450 genes, all of the human chromosomes, and mitochondrial DNA. New and updated summaries are added regularly. The Genetics Home Reference also strives to provide topical information. See recently added entries to the educational primer, Help Me Understand Genetics, discuss Neanderthal DNA, genome editing, and newborn genomic screening.

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