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This document provides questions and answers about family health history, health information about you and your close relatives. Learn how your family's history can be a risk factor for health problem... Details >

Office of Public Health Genomics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

This fact sheet describes the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes and related link to hereditary breast and ovarian cancer. Learn what to do if a person tests positive for one of these alterations, and the conseque... Details >

National Cancer Institute

Also available in: Spanish - (PDF)   

Family health history is the story of diseases that run in your family. Learn why family health history is important, how to collect it, and what types of conditions run in the family. ... Details >

Genetic Alliance  

If you have a mother, father, brother, or sister with type 2 diabetes, you are at risk for developing the disease. Talking about your family health history is the first step to preventing type 2 diabe... Details >

National Diabetes Education Program

Your family history might be one of the strongest influences on your risk of developing Heart Disease, Stroke, Diabetes, or Cancer. Knowing your family history can help you reduce your risk of develop... Details >

Office of Public Health Genomics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Also available in: Spanish 

Many people have a parent, grandparent, or other close relative with alcoholism. Learn what your family's history of alcoholism means for you and what you can do to lower your risk of alcoholism.... Details >

National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, National Institutes of Health

Are you looking for a project to work on with your kids? Or planning to attend a family reunion this summer? If so, consider developing your family's health history. ... Details >

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Genetic research is creating new ways for people to take action, prevent disease and to treat disease through personalized medicine. ... Details >

National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health