dementia is a syndrome encompassing many intellectual domains that can be broadly defined as an overall decline in intellectual function including difficulties with language, simple calculations, planning and judgment and motor skills as well as loss of memory. a genetic cause is identified in only a minority of patients, but patients and their family members are frequently concerned about the ...

OBJECTIVE To examine whether diabetes genetic risk testing and counseling can improve diabetes prevention behaviors. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS We conducted a randomized trial of diabetes genetic risk counseling among overweight patients at increased phenotypic risk for type 2 diabetes. Participants were randomly allocated to genetic testing versus no testing. Genetic risk was calculated by ...

BACKGROUND AND INTRODUCTION Expansion of GAA triplet repeats in the first intron of the frataxin gene causes Friedreich's ataxia. Genetic testing in such condition is important to initiate the appropriate genetic counseling for the family members. The conventional genetic tests used in the diagnosis of Friedreich's ataxia are southern blot, short and long PCR. Recently, triplet repeat primed po...