Genetic Information, Non-Discrimination, and Privacy Protections in Genetic Counseling Practice

Genetic discrimination in the workplace: an overview of existing protections.

Our fate is in our genes.

Genetic information, privacy and insolvency.

Genetic Counseling and Genetic Screening

major congenital anomaly. About one half of these anomalies are detected at birth; the remainder becomes evident later in childhood or, less often, adulthood. Although nongenetic factors may cause malformations, genetic factors are usually responsible. In addition, more than 50 percent of fi rst-trimester spontaneous abortions and at least 5 percent of stillborn infants have chromosomal abnorma...

phylogeography and genetic diversity of the lesser mouse- eared bat (myotis blythii) in iran

in current study, 63 samples of bat populations collected from differ regions were used for evaluating the geographic variations. twenty cranial and dental characters for traditional morphometric and landmarks method on the ventral, dorsal skull and mandible for geometry morphometric studies were used. statistical analyses of traditional morphometric and geometry morphometric data indicated low...

O-16: Genetic Counseling and Necessity of Psychological Counseling Skills

Individuals who are at risk because of their family history or concerned about the possibility of having an affected child based any reasons are seeking solution approaches. Nowadays genetic counseling offers hope to prevent from suffering some genetic diseases. Advances in genetics diagnosis testing have played effective role in this regards. Interestingly, Preimplantation Genetic Testing woul...