Genetic Testing Practices of Genetic Counselors, Geneticists, and Pediatric Neurologists With Regard to Childhood-Onset Neurogenetic Conditions

Survey of genetic counselors and clinical geneticists' use and attitudes toward pharmacogenetic testing.

Pharmacogenetic (PGx) testing aims to improve therapeutic outcomes through tailoring treatment based on a patient's genetic risk for non-response and/or an adverse event. Given their expertise, geneticists could facilitate the use of PGx testing; however, the preparedness and perceived role of the clinical genetics community is unclear. To assess the attitudes, preparedness, and perceived roles...

Attitudes of genetic counselors towards expanding newborn screening and offering predictive genetic testing to children.

There is movement to expand newborn screening (NBS) to include conditions that challenge the traditional public health screening criteria. Little is known about the attitudes of genetic counselors towards expanding NBS and offering predictive genetic tests to children. For our study genetic counselors completed an internet survey posted on the National Society of Genetic Counselors Listserv reg...

Anesthesiologists as genetic counselors?

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A Genetic Risk System for Genetic Counselors

This thesis describes a program named GenInfer+ which uses Bayesian belief networks to model the inheritance of genetic diseases. GenInfer+ is based upon an earlier genetic risk program created by Peter Szolovits named GenInferII which used a Bayesian network to calculate risks to individuals for simple inheritable diseases. This thesis had two goals. The first goal was to design a useful tool ...

Attitudes and Practices of Genetic Counselors in Providing Predictive Testing to Minors at Risk for Li-fraumeni Syndrome