Genetics Home Reference Available to Purchase

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) in the USA creates both professional and consumer health information resources. One of its consumer health products is the Genetics Home Reference (GHR), a free Web‐based database designed to help the curious non‐professional learn about human genetics, particularly genetic conditions. The database itself contains searchable and browsable definitions of genetic conditions and informational summaries about individual genes. These definitions include links to the subject in other NLM and US government‐sponsored materials online. The GHR also includes a glossary and a document called “Help me understand genetics”, which provides basic information intended to...