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Genetic Counseling

Genetic counseling advises people of the risks of genetic disorders that they may be subject to. This allows the person to decide how they want to proceed with future family planning.

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When would a couple seek genetic counseling?

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Genetic counseling is a very expensive process. Usually couples only seek it out when they believe that there is a genetic disease in one of their families that could end up affecting their child. The would conceive and a genetic test would be formed on the fetus. After the results came back there would be time to decide whether to continue with the pregnancy or abort because the genetic disease has been found.

Genetic counseling is a process that what?

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It uses a family pedigree, assists parents in deciding whether or not to have children, and helps identify parents at risk for having children with genetic defects.

What is the difference between genetic screening and genetic counseling?

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You may enjoy eating a bacon, lettuce and tomato sandwich, although that has nothing to do with your question.

Screening is an examination of genetics to discover if there are any problems, and counseling means giving advice which would be based upon the information discovered by the screening.

What are the benefits of using genetic technology?

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We can improve our foods using genetic manipulation. long life tomatoes for example are a product of genetic engineering. We can also identify, and isolate unwanted genes in order to try and eliminate them from a species, or we can isolate genes responsible for positive traits and try to promote them in a species.

Is dwarfism located on a particular chromosome?

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Many inherited disorders in humans are controlled by a single gene. Achondroplasia is a form of dwarfism. About one out of 25,000 people has achondroplasia. The homozygous dominant genotype causes death of the embryo, and therefore only heterozygotes, individuals with a single copy of the defective allele, have this disorder. This also mean that a person with achondroplasia has a 50% chance of passing the condition on to any children. Achondroplasia is a recessive allele.

Why is it important to have genetic counseling before marriage?

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To ensure that there are no genetic anomalies in either partner which would produce damaged offspring.

Are you infavor that couples should undergo genetic counseling?

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an overview of genomes and medcinne

Are you favor of the idea that couples should undergo genetic counseling?

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yes because a parent should know how to take care of their baby properly by going to counselling for their soon to be baby... SORRY FOR THE GRAMMAR.

What is the role of genetic counseling in SMA?

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Genetic counseling is important in SMA, since prenatal and preimplantation genetic diagnoses offer the parents the possibility to prevent the disease.

What are the ethical principles applied to genetic counseling?

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pro-to types and cells that are the right conception of the pro-to type if you don't know what that means you are very stupid