PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Blair H Smith
AU  - Graham CM Watt
AU  - Harry Campbell
AU  - Aziz Sheikh
TI  - Genetic epidemiology and primary care
DP  - 2006 Mar 01
TA  - British Journal of General Practice
PG  - 214--221
VI  - 56
IP  - 524
4099  - http://bjgp.org/content/56/524/214.short
4100  - http://bjgp.org/content/56/524/214.full
SO  - Br J Gen Pract2006 Mar 01; 56
AB  - Large-scale, population-based studies of genetic epidemiology are under way or planned in several countries, including the UK. The results will have many implications for GPs and their patients. Primary care has much to contribute to this research, and basing genetic epidemiology studies in primary care will confer several advantages. These include enhanced public engagement, building on the personal relationships and trust that are at the core of primary care practice; methodological factors that will strengthen study design; and the potential of linkage of multiple datasets and between networks of research practices. Essential development work with primary care professionals and the public is, however, required for this to happen, and, if undertaken, this work will have the additional important benefit of increasing the uptake of new knowledge into general practice.