Counselling, prenatal diagnosis and genomic medicine

Working out and explaining risk, diagnosis before birth, pharmacogenomics and ethics.

8 pages

• Genetic counselling and risk assessmentGenetic counselling helps families understand a diagnosis, the risk to relatives and their…
• Preconception and prenatal genetics: screening, diagnosis and fetal therapyGenetic options before and during pregnancy: carrier screening, embryo testing, screening tests…
• Prenatal diagnosis: ultrasound, serum screening, cell-free DNA, CVS, amniocentesisThe pregnancy tests that estimate the risk of an anomaly (screening) and those that confirm it…
• Genomic medicine and pharmacogenomicsUsing a person's genome to choose drugs and doses, screen populations and diagnose sick newborns…
• PharmacogeneticsHow inherited differences in genes change the way a person handles a drug or reacts to it, and…
• Ethics and society in medical geneticsGenetic information is predictive, shared with relatives and permanent; that raises questions of…
• The four principles of bioethics (principlism)Four principles help frame an ethical problem in medicine: respect autonomy, do good, do no harm…
• Milestones of medical geneticsA short timeline from Mendel's peas to sequencing a newborn's genome in days

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This section is an index: it gathers pages from Biochemistry, Pathology, Embryology and other sections without repeating them. Educational content; it does not replace a geneticist's assessment or genetic counselling.

Representative model, for educational purposes only.