Need articles and research material on 'Cures for genetic diseases'?

Answer 1

Hello Unicyron,

I went to PubMed and did a search using the following search phrase:

"Genetic Diseases, Inborn/diet therapy"[MAJR:NoExp] OR "Genetic Diseases, Inborn/drug therapy"[MAJR:NoExp] OR "Genetic Diseases, Inborn/prevention and control"[MAJR:NoExp] OR "Genetic Diseases, Inborn/surgery"[MAJR:NoExp] OR "Genetic Diseases, Inborn/therapy"[MAJR:NoExp])

and came up with 711 articles, 238 of them were review articles.

This was done by using subject headings, the closest fit to
genetic diseases..seemed to be "Genetic Diseases, Inborn".
I then limited it to the subheadings that seemed to be most
relevant to cures (diet therapy, drug therapy, surgery, etc).
The MAJR means I restricted the search to articles where
"Genetic Diseases, Inborn" was the main point of the article.
These results are the total articles from the 1950's to the present.

Here is what happened when the above search was limited to
--English Language
--Humans
--2000 to present

138 articles, 74 of them being review articles.


In my humble opinion, I think that perhaps consideration could
be given to focusing on an aspect of genetic disease cures,
as perhaps a specific genetic disease or grouping of genetic diseases (See... http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=mesh&list_uids=68030342&dopt=Full ..
for a partial listing).

Perhaps a consultation with your instructor and/or a reference
librarian would be of some value.

Not sure where to go from here.
If you email me, I'd be more than happy to work with you on this further!

Janice

Answer 2

In addition to the excellent PubMed research above, go talk to a local librarian for help with all the resources where you are. PubMed tends to find the world's resources.

Look through Wikipedia's genetic disease information for links to further sites - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

Another useful database is Google Scholar - http://scholar.google.com