Kardia Lab News  
2007
Posted 11/29/2007
The Collaborative is now located in the School of Public Health Crossroads Building in Suite 4605
Announcing Genomics, Life Sciences, and Community Collaborative

2006
Posted 10/19/2006
Software displays complex relationships
Kardia Research Group Announces Two New Software Applications

The Kardia Research Group is very proud to announce the release of two new applications, KGrapher and ChromoScan, and the publication of Application Notes describing each of them in Bioinformatics.

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Posted 06/07/2006
Findings of a 10-year study just out
New Research Report on Breast Cancer Mutations

Newswise — Women diagnosed with breast cancer who carry a certain genetic mutation can have breast-sparing surgery but should consider hormonal treatments to reduce their risk of cancer returning. Those are the findings of a 10-year study led by researchers at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center. The study authors found that women with the genetic mutation who had their ovaries removed or took the anti-estrogen drug tamoxifen had lower rates of breast cancer recurrence or new breast cancers in the other breast.

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Posted 02/09/2006
Conducting a large population study on gene-environment interactions
Address to Secretary’s Advisory Council on Genetics, Health and Society

We do not have the necessary experience, institutional infrastructure, or scientific culture in which to responsibly carry out a large and important interdisciplinary study. Genetic science of common complex disorders is simply not mature enough. We are still using the single gene paradigm of the previous century and do not understand the real roots of why genetic effects are significant in one study but not the next. Especially with a large population study, there will be a desire and a tendency to use all the power of its sample size to promote its findings as “definitive” and make genetic causal statements while ignoring local heterogeneity in environmental and genetic factors that will directly affect the clinical and social utility of the results.

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2005
Posted 11/18/2005
Finding advances efforts to tailor drugs to individual patients
Genes at the heart of bad outcomes in high blood pressure patients

GAINESVILLE, Fla. - Having high blood pressure and a particular genetic alteration dramatically increases the risk of heart attack, stroke or death, and may explain why some hypertensive patients fare worse than others - even if they take the same medication, University of Florida researchers announced this week.

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Posted 11/10/2005
Ethics in the Life Sciences
Kardia interviewed for SPH Alumni Magazine

Dr. Kardia has been featured in numerous editions of the UM School of Public Health alumni magazing, Findings. In Summer 2005, Kardia spoke out in "Brave New Worlds..."

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Posted 11/09/2005
Eighth Meeting, October 19 - 20, 2005
Co-Directors of LSS address Department of Health and Human Services Secretary’s Advisory Committee on Genetics, Health, and Society

North Bethesda, MD -- As a part of the Large Population Studies Session on October 19th, Dr. Sharon Kardia and Toby Citrin addressed the Eighth Meeting of the HHS Secretary’s Advisory Committee on Genetics, Health, and Society.

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2004
Posted 10/13/2004
MEETINGS OF THE INSTITUTE OF MEDICINE, OCTOBER 2004
IOM meets at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington.

Washington -- The IoM Committee on Genomics and the Public's health in the 21st Century will prepare a report prioritizing issues and approaches and outlining subsequent activities based on the two-day workshop. Meanwhile, IoM is seeking nominations for committee members for a new study on Assessing Interactions Among Social, Behavioral, and Genetic Factors in Health.

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Posted 10/12/2004
Fear, costs stymie health care advances
Genome potential goes unfulfilled

WASHINGTON -- Thousands of scientists labored, at a cost of billions of dollars, to decipher the human genome, but so far their efforts have made little change in health care, a panel of experts reported. The why is revealing:

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Posted 07/06/2004
University of Michigan
Kardia & Citrin become co-directors of LSVSP

Two SPH profs lead values and society program

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2003
Posted 11/10/2003
HEALTH & SCIENCE
CDC set to harness the predictive power of a medical family tree

The initiative would provide a standardized, computerized tool aimed at improving the value of family history in preventive medicine.

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Posted 09/25/2003
American Heart Association
Genes Can Individualize Treatment For High Blood Pressure

WASHINGTON, Sept. 24 – Genes that cause hypertension may also determine which blood pressure-lowering drugs are most effective for different people, according to research presented today at the American Heart Association's 57th Annual High Blood Pressure Research Conference.

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