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    Health History

    Articles

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    Archaic Medical Terms

    10 Best DNA Test for Health
    CDC - Family Health History
    Create a Personal Medical History

    Family Health History Tool Kit

    Finding the Best DNA Health Test
    Genetic Risk
    It Runs In My Family.com
    Know Your Family Health History
    Surgeon General’s Family History Initiative
    My Family Health Portrait Tool
    Tracing Your Family Medical History

    What is a Polygenic Risk Score?

    What is my Health History? (WebMD)

    Medical history: Compiling your medical family tree

    The ‘Secret’ Codes on Death Certificates That Can Tell You How Your Ancestors Died

    Learn About Your Risk for Breast Cancer

    Genealogy and Health History

    Family Health History: Why It’s Important and What You Should Know

    The importance of DNA Testing in Personalized Healthcare

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    Genealogy Testing Companies Providing Health Information

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    23 and Me

    MyHeritage

    Promethease  (recently acquired by MyHeritage)

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    Books


    Unlocking Your Genetic History by Thomas H. Shawker, M.D., National Genealogical Society, 2004.

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    A Medical Miscellany for Genealogists, by Dr. Jeanette Jerger, Heritage Books, 2019.

    Updated 1-25--2021

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