{"id":7741,"date":"2022-03-25T16:41:19","date_gmt":"2022-03-25T20:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncbiinsights.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/?p=7741"},"modified":"2022-03-25T16:41:19","modified_gmt":"2022-03-25T20:41:19","slug":"mgv-acmg2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncbiinsights.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/2022\/03\/25\/mgv-acmg2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Using NCBI resources to research, detect, and treat genetic phenotypes"},"content":{"rendered":"
NCBI offers a portfolio of medical genetics resources to help you research, diagnose, and treat diseases and conditions. You can easily access our data and tools through the <\/span>Medical Genetics and Human Variation page<\/span><\/a> of the NCBI website<\/span>. We also encourage you to join our community of thousands of submitters and share your germline and\/or somatic data to advance discovery and optimize clinical care.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n How and why should you use our resources? Consider the example below.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Your patient is a 40-year-old mother of two presenting with <\/span>changes in bathroom habits, bleeding, and belly pain. She has a medical history of colonic polyps. Her family history reveals that her maternal grandmother, mother and uncle had several forms of cancers including colon, breast, and endometrium.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n You suspect <\/span>Lynch Syndrome <\/span><\/b>a<\/span>nd use NCBI resources to learn more. The following are relevant NCBI resources with example records and search results.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n