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# Counselling, prenatal diagnosis and genomic medicine

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

8 pages

- [**Genetic counselling and risk assessment** Genetic counselling helps families understand a diagnosis, the risk to relatives and their…](https://durgical.com/en/biochemistry/topics/genetic-counselling-and-risk-assessment/)
- [**Preconception and prenatal genetics: screening, diagnosis and fetal therapy** Genetic options before and during pregnancy: carrier screening, embryo testing, screening tests…](https://durgical.com/en/biochemistry/topics/preconception-and-prenatal-genetics-screening-diagnosis-and-fetal-therapy/)
- [**Prenatal diagnosis: ultrasound, serum screening, cell-free DNA, CVS, amniocentesis** The pregnancy tests that estimate the risk of an anomaly (screening) and those that confirm it…](https://durgical.com/en/embryology/prenatal-diagnosis-ultrasound-serum-screening-cell-free-dna-cvs-amniocentesis/)
- [**Genomic medicine and pharmacogenomics** Using a person's genome to choose drugs and doses, screen populations and diagnose sick newborns…](https://durgical.com/en/biochemistry/topics/genomic-medicine-and-pharmacogenomics/)
- [**Pharmacogenetics** How inherited differences in genes change the way a person handles a drug or reacts to it, and…](https://durgical.com/en/pharmacology/topics/pharmacogenetics/)
- [**Ethics and society in medical genetics** Genetic information is predictive, shared with relatives and permanent; that raises questions of…](https://durgical.com/en/biochemistry/topics/ethics-and-society-in-medical-genetics/)
- [**The four principles of bioethics (principlism)** Four principles help frame an ethical problem in medicine: respect autonomy, do good, do no harm…](https://durgical.com/en/medical-ethics/the-four-principles-of-bioethics/)
- [**Milestones of medical genetics** A short timeline from Mendel's peas to sequencing a newborn's genome in days](https://durgical.com/en/biochemistry/topics/milestones-of-medical-genetics/)

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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.

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