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Genetic Counseling

Known as: Counseling, Genetic, genetic counselling 
An educational process that provides information and advice to individuals or families about a genetic condition that may affect them. The purpose is… 
National Institutes of Health

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Congenital defectsContraceptive methodsDirective CounselingEugenics

Broader (2)

CounselingFamily planning counseling

Narrower (1)

Genetic Counseling, Prenatal

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Highly Cited
2009
Highly Cited
2009
An interactive computer program for educating and counseling patients about genetic susceptibility to breast cancer.
Educating individuals who seek information about genetic testing for cancer susceptibility is a complex task. Because of the… 
Highly Cited
2003
Highly Cited
2003
Personal theories of inheritance, coping strategies, risk perception and engagement in hereditary non‐polyposis colon cancer families offered genetic testing
From the geneticist's (or ‘genetic counsellor’s') perspective, lay models of inheritance can be perceived as problematic because… 
Highly Cited
2001
Highly Cited
2001
Participation in Breast Cancer Genetic Counseling: The Influence of Educational Level, Ethnic Background, and Risk Perception
Genetic counseling has been suggested as a means of providing information and support to women with a family history of breast… 
Highly Cited
1999
Highly Cited
1999
Client Perceptions of the Impact of Genetic Counseling: An Exploratory Study
Twenty-eight former genetic counseling clients seen at a major Midwestern university were recruited to be interviewed about their… 
1994
1994
Intestinal microvillous dystrophy: a variant of microvillous inclusion disease or a new entity?
Highly Cited
1992
Highly Cited
1992
Prevalence of intellectual handicap in Western Australia: a community study
To produce comprehensive community based data on individuals with intellectual handicap, thé level of retardation, associated… 
1991
1991
An 18-locus linkage map of the pericentromeric region of the human X chromosome: genetic framework for mapping X-linked disorders.
1980
1980
The psychological paradigm shift in genetic counseling.
Abstract The history of genetic counseling can be organized around three different paradigms: eugenics, preventive medicine, and… 
Highly Cited
1971
Highly Cited
1971
An Enquiry Into the Effect of a Spina Bifida Child Upon Family Life
The families of two cohorts of children were interviewed in order to assess the impact of a spina bifida child upon his family… 
1968
1968
X-linked hydrocephalus.
of 55 cm. An operative pneumoventriculogram and Pantopaque ven-triculogram demonstrated dilatation of the lateral ven- tricles… 
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