Genetic counseling Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description
Genetic counseling is the counseling done to parents of a child with a disease that might have a hereditary component. Ideally, genetic counseling should happen before conception (i.e. when one or two of the parents are carriers of a certain trait), but in practice the counseling often takes place when a child with a genetic disorder has been born. If necessary, additional genetic testing may have to be done of both parents to determine the risk of recurrence in future offspring.In certain circles, premarital genetic testing is already a fact of life, i.e. in West-Africans from countries with a high occurrence of sickle-cell anemia, and in Jews of Eastern-European Ashkenazi background (e.g. Tay-Sachs disease, see also Dor Yeshorim).
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