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1Do you have a sibling with Down syndrome? 1 Citation Do you have a sibling with Down syndrome? November 17th, 2008 Ashley Noack is a Genetic Counseling student from the University of South Carolina. She has a sister with Down syndrome and she is interested in the prenatal testing and decision making process of individuals who have a sibling with Down syndrome. Specifically she wants to know if having a sibling with Down syndrome affects a woman?s choice to utilize prenatal screening, prenatal diagnosis, and ending a pregnancy for Down syndrom, technorati.com
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1 Citation NDSC announces new website November 19th, 2008 The National Down Syndrome Congress announced their new website today. This has been in the works for about a year now and they now have it up and going to help professionals in the medical field interested in Down syndrome. Four highly experienced doctors in the Down syndrome field talk about how to present the diagnosis of Down syndrome and explain a little more about Down syndrome. Dr. George Capone, Dr. Sigfried Pueschel, Dr. Laura Cifra-, technorati.com
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Fragile X testing recommended for all ages 1 Citation JAMA commentary urges testing of children, men and women for subtle effects of fragile X gene mutation. UCDavis.edu - Writing in this week?s Journal of the American Medical Association, UC Davis M.I.N.D. Institute researchers urge physicians to test for mutations of the fragile X gene in patients of all ages. That?s because, after decades of research, , technorati.com
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Parents sought for survey of genetic counseling experiences and genetic knowledge 1 Citation A graduate student in the Genetic Counseling Program at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore is conducting a large-scale survey of what parents of children with neuromuscular disorders know about the genetic basis of their child?s condition and how this information was obtained. The investigators hope to improve parental education in this area. The survey is available online at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=px33yKo77QFithmcfY1sag_3d_3d. Contact Jacquelyn Francis at, technorati.com
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Note to self: Genetic risk is an estimate 1 Citation I chanced upon this article - Genetic testing under the microscope - in the Los Angeles Times of an interview with the President of the National Society of Genetic Counselors, Angela Trepanier, and she presents an interesting perspective on the future of personalized medicine. In the near future, Trepanier says that genetic testing will become a routine part of healthcare. Right now, access to one?s genetic information can be had for at least $400, and one is able to find out which diseases, technorati.com
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1 Citation I wanted to send an update about my latest prayer request. For months, I've been dreading what I had to go through being over 35 years old and pregnant. I've been asking for peace of mind to get through the genetic ultrasound done that is done at 18 weeks. When the test was done for my first pregnancy, there were multiple "markers" that indicated brain damage, down syndrome, and trisonomy 18 defects. We forewent doing the amnio, since we were committed to have the baby, defect or no defec, technorati.com
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Article in St Louis Post-Dispatch (Missouri): Down syndrome advocates praise new law 1 Citation November 11, 2008 ? stremain CHESTERFIELD, Mo.? When Missouri Sen. John Loudon and his wife, Gina, decided to adopt their third child, they knew three things: They wanted a little boy, they would name him Samuel and he would have Down syndrome. ?This was always part of the plan,? said Gina Loudon as their now 3-year-old Sammy darted in and out of the living room in his slippers, giggling loudly.?We didn?t know much about how it was going to happen, but we just knew.? The politically active cou, technorati.com
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1 Citation Blood type is a special type of inherited trait that is governed by multiple alleles, or gene variants. Most often referred to as the ABO blood group, these three alleles (A, B, and O) can produce four phenotypes from six genotypes. Of the three possible alleles, A and B are always dominant to O. In , technorati.com
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Laws against cousing marriage ?seem ill-advised? 1 Citation This is, I think, one more bit of evidence in support of the conclusion that we shouldn?t take scientists too seriously when they attempt to translate their research findings into ethical paradigms. inbreeding is the source of jokes about British royalty and is associated with increased birth defects among offspring. The practice is so reviled that 31 U.S. states ban marriage between first cousins or allow it only if the couple has undergone genetic counseling or at least one partner is steril, technorati.com
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Why and what is Genetic Counseling? 1 Citation #fullpost{display:inline;}Genetic counseling is useful to any woman, either before or during pregnancy, who is worried about the danger to her unborn baby posed by a number of situations.A family history of genetic disease or birth defectsA chromosome problem associated with advanced maternal age such as Down syndromeExposure to potentially harmful sub¬stances,Two or more unexplained miscarriages or a previous baby with a birth defect.Likewise, families probing for answers of the manifestation o, technorati.com
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