F-treeGC: a questionnaire-based family tree-creation software for genetic counseling and genome cohort studies.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The Tohoku Medical Megabank project aims to create a next-generation personalized healthcare system by conducting large-scale genome-cohort studies involving three generations of local residents in the areas affected by the Great East Japan Earthquake. We collected medical and genomic information for developing a biobank to be used for this healthcare system. We designed a questionnaire-based pedigree-creation software program named "f-treeGC," which enables even less experienced medical practitioners to accurately and rapidly collect family health history and create pedigree charts.

Results

f-treeGC may be run on Adobe AIR. Pedigree charts are created in the following manner: 1) At system startup, the client is prompted to provide required information on the pres

SUBMITTER: Tokutomi T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5512935 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature