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Definition of Genetic counseling
1. Noun. Guidance for prospective parents on the likelihood of genetic disorders in their future children.
Medical Definition of Genetic counseling
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Genetic Counseling
Literary usage of Genetic counseling
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Genetic Information and Health Care: Hearing Before the Committee on Labor edited by James M. Jeffords (2001)
"She was a consultant with the New York State Department of Mental Hygiene for
genetic counseling services prior to coming to Yale almost 20 years ago. ..."
2. Guide To Clinical Preventive Services by U. S. Preventive Services Task Force (1989)
"Their families should receive genetic counseling regarding family testing ....
genetic counseling of asymptomatic carriers in a primary care setting: the ..."
3. Management & Therapy of Sickle Cell Disease edited by Clarice D. Reid, Samuel Charace, Bertram Lubin (1997)
"COUNSELING Couples at risk for conceiving a child with homozygous SS disease, Hb
SC disease, or S|3 thalassemia should be referred for genetic counseling. ..."
4. Understanding Gene Testing by DIANE Publishing Company (2004)
"What is the role of genetic counseling? In the sophisticated programs that are
pioneering predictive genetic tests for cancer, genetic counseling plays a ..."
5. Sickle Cell Disease: Screening, Diagnosis, Management, and Counseling in by Jeanne A. Smith, Thomas R. Kinney (1997)
"Education and genetic counseling Education services should be offered to all
parents of infants who are identified with a hemoglobin abnormality. ..."
6. Genetic Tests and Health Insurance: Results of a Survey (1993)
"SOURCE: Office of Technology Assessment, 1992. survey had conducted an economic
analysis of the costs and benefits of genetic counseling of carriers who are ..."