{"id":18877,"date":"2020-09-04T20:50:45","date_gmt":"2020-09-04T20:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/pnr\/?p=18877"},"modified":"2026-02-03T18:45:38","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T18:45:38","slug":"consumer-health-minute-medlineplus-genetics","status":"archive","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/consumer-health-minute-medlineplus-genetics\/","title":{"rendered":"Consumer Health Minute: MedlinePlus Genetics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Genetics Home Reference has now become part of MedlinePlus and is available in the\u00a0\u201cGenetics\u201d section. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-18880\" src=\"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/pnr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/09\/GHR_M-300x162.png\" alt=\"GHR part of MedlinePlus\" width=\"300\" height=\"162\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/09\/GHR_M-300x162.png 300w, https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/09\/GHR_M.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Just like the resource, Genetics Home Reference, MedlinePlus includes over more than 1,300 genetic conditions and 1,475 genes, all of the human chromosomes, and mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA). The information is organized in much the same way for easy navigation.<\/p>\n<p>Also carried over is the popular genetics primer, &#8216;Help Me Understand Genetics&#8221;, which offers basic explanations of how genes work and how mutations cause disorders, as well as current information about genetic testing (including direct-to-consumer), gene therapy, genetics research, and precision medicine.<\/p>\n<p>What you won&#8217;t find, are the classroom resources which were a collection of resources linked from a variety of organizations and institutions to Genetics Home Reference. If you would like to quickly save these links, <a href=\"https:\/\/ghr.nlm.nih.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Genetics Home Reference<\/a> will still be available until October 1, 2020.<\/p>\n<p>When your patrons and customers come to you for information about genetics, turn to <a href=\"https:\/\/medlineplus.gov\/genetics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MedlinePlus Genetics section<\/a> to access quality genetics information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Genetics Home Reference has now become part of MedlinePlus and is available in the\u00a0\u201cGenetics\u201d section. Just like the resource, Genetics Home Reference, MedlinePlus includes over more than 1,300 genetic conditions and 1,475 genes, all of the human chromosomes, and mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA). The information is organized in much the same way for easy navigation. Also&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/consumer-health-minute-medlineplus-genetics\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[316,457,9,6],"tags":[119,90,280,281,55,279,56],"class_list":["post-18877","post","type-post","status-archive","format-standard","hentry","category-consumer-health","category-consumer-health-minute","category-health-literacy","category-national-news","tag-consumer-health","tag-genetic-diseases","tag-genetic-health-literacy","tag-genetic-resources","tag-genetics","tag-genomic-health-literacy","tag-genomics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18877"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18883,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18877\/revisions\/18883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}