MedGen: NCBI’s Portal to Information on Medical Conditions with a Genetic Component

Abstract

MedGen serves as a portal to information on genetic aspects of human health and disease. Created and maintained by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), it aggregates clinically-relevant content from both NCBI and non-NCBI databases. MedGen summaries and curated links are designed to be particularly useful to health care professionals considering genetic aspects of patient care.

KEYWORDS:

• Genetics
• genomic medicine
• health care
• MedGen
• NCBI
• online database

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For additional information on MedGen, please see the help documentation at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/medgen/docs/help/ or contact:

National Center for Biotechnology Information,

U.S. National Library of Medicine,

8600 Rockville Pike,

Bethesda, MD 20894, USA

E-mail: [email protected]

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Notes on contributors

Diana Nelson Louden

Diana Nelson Louden, MLib ([email protected]) is Scientific Research Librarian in the Health Sciences Library at the University of Washington, P.O. Box 352900, Seattle, WA 98195 USA.