The family history--more important than ever.

By A. Guttmacher, F. S. Collins, R. Carmona. New England Journal of Medicine, 2004

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Adverse Childhood Experiences and Adult Risk Factors for Age-Related Disease (2009, unknown): “Adverse psychosocial experiences in childhood are likely to be accompanied by other developmental risk factors for poor adult health, including family history of disease, 38 low birth weight, 39 and childhood overweight.”
Review of the Lynch syndrome: history, molecular genetics, screening, differential diagnosis, and medicolegal ramifications (2009, background): “For example, the United States Surgeon General was concerned enough to launch a campaign promoting awareness of the medical value of family history and encouraging data collection and analysis (10, 11).”
Feasibility of screening for Lynch syndrome among patients with colorectal cancer. (2008, background): “It is well known that family history is often overlooked.(37) In this study where none of 44 probands”