Discover Community Create You

Loading publication...

Noodle always counts identifier-free feature events for service operation. With your permission, Google Analytics can also estimate audience and engagement. Search text, publication identifiers, cookies, IP addresses and browser fingerprints are never included in Noodle's first-party event counters.

Privacy details

Article

The role of genetic factors in maintaining health.

Nursing standard (Royal College of Nursing (Great Britain) : 1987) - 1 Jan 2000

Kirk Maggie

Abstract excerpt

This article reviews the essential background information nurses need to help them understand how genetics influences health and ill-health. The typical human genetic make-up is described, along with an explanation of how changes to this can result in disease. The author also describes the characteristics of different patterns of inheritance.

Read the complete abstract on PubMed

Topics

Share this publication in a Topic to start or enrich a Post.

Share to Genetic Counseling
Share to Genetic Predisposition to Disease
Share to Genetic Testing

Methodology Data sources Editorial policy Privacy Delete account & data About Contact Helena Bioinformatics

Share to Health Education

Share to Health Status

Share to Inheritance Patterns

Source

Identifiers

PMID: 16262177
DOI: 10.7748/ns2005.10.20.4.50.c3971

Provenance

PubMed metadata and Literature Corpus relationships. Corpus snapshot updated 7 Sept 2026. Manifest publication-graph-cohort-2026-09-08.1.

Source receipt: pubmed, retrieved 7 Sept 2026.

Related research

Semantic proximity does not establish scientific evidence. Graph snapshot: 2026-09-29.

Research trail→

Click a neighbor to travelStep 1 · 12 closest

The role of genetic factors in maintaining health.PMID 16262177Read ↗

The role of genetic/genomic factors in health, illness and care provision.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Genetics: overview and issues in child health.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Perspective: How can genetics help?Semantic proximity Read ↗

Reading your family history. Don't jump to conclusions when you see a disease 'running in the family.' Inherited genes are just one of many explanations.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Genetics: finding risk factors.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Introduction: genetic variation and human health.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Origins of human genetics. A personal perspective.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Primer in Genetics and Genomics, Article 4-Inheritance Patterns.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Helping your patients to deal with a predisposition to genetic disease.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Genetic discoveries and nursing implications for complex disease prevention and management.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Genetic disease: effects on human health.Semantic proximity Read ↗

The Human Genome Project, genetics and health.Semantic proximity Read ↗

⌁Select a neighboring publication to make it the new centre.