Genetic Counselling: A Review and Update Singh Rahul K*, Post Graduate Student, Jaiswal J N, Professor, Tripathi Abhay M, Professor and H.O.D, Garg Nishita, Senior Lecturer Department of Pedodontics & Preventive Dentistry, Sardar Patel Post Graduate Institute of Dental and Medical Sciences, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh *Corresponding author: Rahul Kumar Singh, Post Graduate Student, Department of Pedodontics & Preventive Dentistry, Sardar Patel Post Graduate Institute of Dental and Medical Sciences, Chaudhary Vihar, Raebareilli Road, Lucknow. Email: rahulsinghdoctor@gmail.com, Phone No.: 09793424613
Online published on 8 October, 2014. Abstract The increasing availability of genetic tests confers to the speciality of genetic counselling a fast growing place in medical practice. Genetic counselling provides the link between genetic technologies and patient care. It is a communication process which deals with the human problems associated with the occurrence, or the risk of occurrence, of a genetic disorder in a family. Recent dramatic advances in medical genetics have resulted in a comparable increase of interest in genetic counselling. These advances have included rapid growth in knowledge of the ways in which a large number of diseases are inherited, improvements in the ability to examine human chromosomes and detect chromosomal abnormalities, the ability to diagnose certain diseases in the second trimester of pregnancy, and the advent of screening programs for certain diseases in high risk populations. Top Keywords Genetic Counselling, Chromosomal Abnormalities, Pregnancy. Top |