The giving of advice to prospective parents concerning the risks of genetic disorders in a future child.
（就待生孩子有无遗传疾病向准父母提供的）遗传咨询
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Even routine pregnancies in industrialized countries are increasingly technological, as couples are offered genetic counselling, and ultrasound scans and amniocentesis have become commonplace.
Early recognition of the underlying disorder is important for long term management and presumably for genetic counselling.
The parents may also wish to have genetic counselling to understand the condition, to identify carriers and to explain the risk of recurrence.
The study aims to evaluate the quality of genetic counselling provided within general health services.
Where appropriate, the doctor should also counsel patients on any possible familial risk and the need for genetic counselling of relatives.
Because of my personal experience I feel strongly that if patients are diagnosed as having Turner's syndrome or indeed any genetic condition, they should be referred for genetic counselling.
However, knowledge of specific genes for some forms of common disease has brought many new patients and families for genetic counselling.
In addition, genetic counselling may be helpful for parents with affected offspring.
After genetic counselling, two of the couples cancelled their marriages, and other couples sought prenatal diagnosis.
Although genetic counselling falls into this category, this type of counselling is of a different style and nature to general counselling.
Parents of newborn infants with sickle cell disease receive genetic counselling and support.
Antenatal screening allows you to undergo a blood test to detect carrier couples and provide genetic counselling.
Some imprinted disorders may be familial, and genetic counselling for these conditions is not for the faint hearted.
I wished to publish a case involving a traceable adult with learning disability who had requested genetic counselling.
A recent study found that genetic counselling produced only a modest shift in the accuracy of perceived lifetime risk.
It will dominate predictive genetics and genetic counselling.
In this model counsellors would serve as a first line of consultation, undertake some genetic counselling in the surgery, and facilitate referral of families at higher risk.
But I fully support that and I would promote genetic counselling as a discipline in Australia.
Similarly, when a couple have lost a child with a potentially inherited condition, analysis of tissue from the dead baby may be crucial for accurate genetic counselling and future prenatal testing.
In practice, this is the stance taken by most UK cancer registries, which do not require consent from next of kin before disclosing cancer diagnoses for genetic counselling.