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Genetic red flags: clues to thinking genetically in primary care practice.
Primary care - 1 Sept 2004
Whelan Alison J, Ball Susie, Best Lyle, Best Robert G, Echiverri Susan C, Ganschow Pamela, Hopkin Robert J, Mayefsky Jay, Stallworth James
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This article presents an approach to "thinking genetically" in primary care. Busy practitioners often lack the time to consider thoroughly whether their patients have an underlying genetic diagnosis. To assist the primary care clinician, a working group of the Genetics in Primary Care Faculty Development Initiative developed a simple mnemonic, Family GENES, that alerts the clinician to consider genetic causes in...
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