Publications by Dr. Muin Khoury
Selected reprints of articles co-authored by Dr. Khoury include the following. Please click on the title to see the PDF.
Letting the Genome out of the Bottle -- Will We Get Our Wish? New England Journal of Medicine, 2008. A short overview of issues arising from direct-to-consumer availability of SNP testing.
A Critical Appraisal of the Scientific Basis of Commercial Genomic Profiles Used to Access Health Risks and Personalize Health Interventions. American Journal of Human Genetics, 2008. A comprehensive assessment of the scientific evidence regarding gene-disease associations in direct-to-consumer SNP testing.
Challenges of Translating Genetic Tests into Clinical and Public Health Practice. Nature Reviews Genetics, 2009. A presentation of the main challenges to the successful integration of new research findings about genotype-phenotype associations into clinical practice and the means to achieve an accelerated translation research agenda.
Comparative Effectiveness Research and Genomic Medicine: An Evolving Partnership for 21st Century Medicine. Genetics in Medicine, 2009. A persuasive perspective on the importance of comparative effectiveness research in evaluating new genome-based applications versus more traditional approaches to diagnosis, risk assessment, disease screening, and other management parameters.
Will Genomics Widen or Help Heal the Schism Between Medicine and Public Health? American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 2007. A provocative commentary positing that the integration of genomics into health care and disease prevention requires a strong medicine-public health partnership in the context of a population approach to a translational research agenda.