Adoptees: Genetic Information and Public Health - April 27, 2015

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Adoptees: Genetic Information and Public Health - April 27, 2015

CDC paper: Can targeted genetic testing offer useful health information to adoptees
May T et al. Genetics in Medicine, April 24, 2015

With DNA testing, suddenly they are family by Rachell Swarns, New York Times, 2012

Adoptees and genetic information, by MC Randall, GeneticHealth

How adoptees can overcome secrecy through DNA testing, by Richard Hill, Gazillion Voices, 2015

Twins and virtual twins: Do genetic (as well as experiential) factors affect developmental risks?
Segal NL et al. J Exp Child Psychol 2015 Apr 17. 55-69

Incidence of appendicitis according to region of origin in first- and second-generation immigrants and adoptees in Sweden. A cohort follow-up study.
Terlinder J et al. Scand. J. Gastroenterol. 2015 Apr 15. 1-10

Familial transmission of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in adoptees: a Swedish nationwide family study.
Zöller B et al. BMJ Open 2015 (4) e007310

Association of adoptive child's thought disorders and schizophrenia spectrum disorders with their genetic liability for schizophrenia spectrum disorders, season of birth and parental Communication Deviance.
Roisko R et al. Psychiatry Res 2015 Apr 30. (2-3) 434-40

The role of parenting in the prediction of criminal involvement: findings from a nationally representative sample of youth and a sample of adopted youth.
Beaver KM et al. Dev Psychol 2015 Mar (3) 301-8

An extended Swedish national adoption study of alcohol use disorder.
Kendler KS et al. JAMA Psychiatry 2015 Mar (3) 211-8

Familial transmission of prostate, breast and colorectal cancer in adoptees is related to cancer in biological but not in adoptive parents: a nationwide family study.
Zöller B et al. Eur. J. Cancer 2014 Sep (13) 2319-27

Familial transmission of venous thromboembolism: a cohort study of 80,214 Swedish adoptees linked to their biological and adoptive parents.
Zöller B et al. Circ Cardiovasc Genet 2014 Jun (3) 296-303

Genetic and familial environmental effects on suicide attempts: a study of Danish adoptees and their biological and adoptive siblings.
Petersen L et al. J Affect Disord 2014 Feb 273-7