TY - JOUR
AU1 - Mittman, IlanaSuez
AU2 - Secundy, MarianGray
AB - IntroductionNew and dramatic revelations in the human genetics field are forever changing the approach to disease prevention and treatment. In his 1998 Address to the Nation, President Clinton announced the largest funding increase in the history of the National Institute of Health, highlighting the potential of advances in human genetics to offer ‘a road map to disease prevention’.In spite of the fact that genetic conditions cross racial and economic lines, and have a major impact on the health of the public, members of ethnic/racial minority groups (representing the fastest growing segment of the US population), are vastly underrepresented among consumers of genetic services, genetic providers, and genetic policy makers. This can be well demonstrated by the fact that Hispanics and Blacks comprise only a small minority among US members of the American Society of Human Genetics (1 and 0.7%, respectively) which is quite astounding given the fact that these two ethnic minority groups comprise almost one fourth of the US population [personal communication with the ASHG administrative office]. Furthermore, it is perceived among behavioral scientists that consumer studies set to ascertain prior knowledge of genetic risk and services, as well as preferences and attitudes regarding these services, fail to 
TI - Introduction
JF - Public Health Genomics
DO - 10.1159/000016147
DA - 1999-01-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/karger/introduction-qVj3uJ4wKh
SP - 115
EP - 117
VL - 1
IS - 3
DP - DeepDyve
ER -