The Enduring Importance of Family Health History in the Era of Genomic Medicine and Risk Assessment - PubMed

The Enduring Importance of Family Health History in the Era of Genomic Medicine and Risk Assessment - PubMed

. 2020 Apr 22.

 doi: 10.2217/pme-2019-0091. Online ahead of print.

The Enduring Importance of Family Health History in the Era of Genomic Medicine and Risk Assessment

Susanne B Haga 1, Lori A Orlando 1

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• PMID: 32320338
 
• DOI: 10.2217/pme-2019-0091

Abstract

Improving disease risk prediction and tailoring preventive interventions to patient risk factors is one of the primary goals of precision medicine. Family health history is the traditional approach to quickly gather genetic and environmental data relevant to the patient. While the utility of family health history is well-documented, its utilization is variable, in part due to lack of patient and provider knowledge and incomplete or inaccurate data. With the advances and reduced costs of sequencing technologies, comprehensive sequencing tests can be performed as a risk assessment tool. We provide an overview of each of these risk assessment approaches, the benefits and limitations and implementation challenges.

Keywords: family health history; patient education; provider education; risk assessment; sequencing; utility; utilization.

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