{"id":698,"date":"2015-11-24T19:51:37","date_gmt":"2015-11-24T19:51:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.concert.co\/bonding-over-turkey-and-heritable-disease\/"},"modified":"2024-04-18T21:03:04","modified_gmt":"2024-04-18T21:03:04","slug":"bonding-over-turkey-and-heritable-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.concert.co\/blog\/bonding-over-turkey-and-heritable-disease\/","title":{"rendered":"Bonding over turkey and heritable disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-md\">By: David Shifrin, PhD Science Writer,\u00a0Filament Life Science Communications<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-md\">A lot of stories get told around the Thanksgiving table that tend to be, well, less than historically accurate. What better time to push family lore just a little bit further than when everyone\u2019s there to join fun? And then there are the old wives tales that get passed around as sage advice year after year. Let\u2019s be honest, no matter how much you argue, Great-Aunt Helen will never believe that going outside in the cold won\u2019t make you sick, and Uncle Jim will never be convinced that his post-dinner nap isn\u2019t a direct result of his tryptophan intake. Not for nothing, but does Uncle Jim even know what tryptophan is?<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-md\">Even so, for the past 11 years Americans have been encouraged to share family stories on Thanksgiving, but hopefully those rooted in a bit more truth. In 2004, the Surgeon General first declared the fourth Thursday in November to be National Family History Day. The idea is to take advantage of Uncle Jim and Great-Aunt Helen, along with all the siblings and cousins, hanging out in the same room to review any known family health issues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-md\">Who knew there was a history of glaucoma? Had cousin Amy told anyone that she had undergone genetic testing for <em>BRCA<\/em>? Did the doctors ever figure out Grandpa\u2019s underlying cardiac problem? Everyone agrees that this information is potentially important to the rest of the family, but nobody bothered to take careful note of it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-md\">According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hhs.gov\/familyhistory\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Health and Human Services<\/a>, \u201c96 percent of Americans believe that knowing their family history is important. Yet, the same survey found that only one-third of Americans have ever tried to gather and write down their family&#8217;s health history.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-md\">We\u2019ve covered issues surrounding the sharing of genetic information here on the blog. \u201cSharing,\u201d though, has always referred to passing around huge datasets between researchers, companies, and the individual patients. Stepping away from the industrial side of things, it\u2019s clearly important for individuals to consider sharing their health and genetic information with close relatives. There\u2019s only so much the medical profession can do without individuals taking responsibility for their own health. The team at Concert Genetics\u00a0recognizes this fact. Gillian Hooker, Concert Genetics\u00a0Director of Clinical Development, says, \u201cFamily health history is one of the cheapest and most meaningful genetic tests we have. There\u2019s tremendous value in collecting and tracking this information in order to better understand risks for conditions that might run in your family. \u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-md\">Not surprisingly, HHS has worked to make that collecting and tracking as easy as possible. Americans are encouraged to set aside some time on Thanksgiving to review each family member\u2019s health history. From there, HHS has developed \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/familyhistory.hhs.gov\/FHH\/html\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">My Family Health Portrait<\/a>,\u201d a simple if dated-looking web portal for creating basic pedigrees. The tool can indicate whether the individual at the center of the record is at increased risk for common heritable diseases like colon cancer and diabetes. Additionally, the tool can \u201cre-index\u201d the information, putting other family members on the tree at the center of the tool.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-md\">It\u2019s certainly not a comprehensive tool, but a well-conceived effort to get people talking. The potential awkwardness of your brother suddenly asking personal medical questions through mouthfuls of green bean casserole makes the prospect of actually opening these topics during Thanksgiving a bit less appealing. Nonetheless, everyone in the medical community should take the idea behind National Family History Day and encourage the public to learn as much as they can about their own family\u2019s medical past.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-md\">Now, if you\u2019ll excuse me, I need to go find another stick of butter for my mashed potatoes. 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