Genetic counseling is the process of advising indivduals, partners and families affected by or at risk genetic disorders to help them understand adapt medical, psychological, social, family reproductive implications a condition. Given expansion precision medicine recent increase in use molecular diagnostic tests, it necessary have duly certified personnel our environment perform it. In Mexico, ...

The future growth of preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) will depend on refinements in genetic knowledge and genetic analysis of blastomeres. Equally important, however, is an acceptance of the ethical legitimacy of parents using technologies to select genetic traits of offspring. Objections based on embryo status, the giftedness of reproduction, eugenics, and protecting the child's welfare...

ône-third of population deal with sleep disorders which might be due to social, economic or medical problems. studies on twins have indicated the role of genetic factors in these disorders. monozygotic twins have a very similar hypnogram. â higher prevalence of some sleep disorders is reported in relatives of the patients with these disorders. genes also affect sleep disorders as well as some o...

Genetic is one of the most common causes hearing loss with more than a hundred genes related to have been identified. A genetic diagnosis can assist clinicians keep away from unimportant and expensive clinical examinations, put up prognostic information, in constructing medical therapy for patients. The development gene improve hereditary continues grow these days, showing promising results. Th...

Two patients who applied to our Genetics Unit with multiple congenital anomalies were examined for pedigree and cytogenetical analyses. The diagnosed as Multiple Pterygium Syndrome(MPS) medical genetic counselling was given the families.

    Molecular epidemiology is a subdivision of medical science and epidemiology that emphases on the involvement of potential environmental and genetic risk factors, recognized at the molecular level, to the etiology and avoidance of sickness through populations. This arena has developed from the combination of molecular biology and traditional epidemiological research. Molecular...

purpose: to evaluate malpractice complaints against ophthalmologist referred to the iri. methods: this cross-sectional study was performed on medical council during years 2003 to 2008. spss software was used for analysis. results: during this period from 1869 cases of malpractice 115 (%6.1) have been related to the field of ophthalmology but in order to some problems we can’t analysis 24 files....

Etemadi K1, Khazaii MR2 1. MSC of Human Genetic, Molecular Medicine and Genetic department, Medical school, Hamadan University of medical sciences. 2. Assistant professor of Pediatric Urology Abstract Background: The Bardet Biedl syndrome is a heterogenous and autosomal recessive disorder. Primary features are: retinitis pigmentosa, obesity, polydactyly, mental retardation, renal abnorm...