[Pre-symptomatic diagnosis of severe hereditary diseases with late onset in Lebanon: a choice or a necessity?].

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Progress achieved in the field of molecular genetics has opened the door to pre-symptomatic diagnosis tests of several severe hereditary disease, a majority of which are dominant and appear later in life. Given the importance of diagnosis in some of the cases where medical supervision and prevention are possible, there are a number of ethical dilemmas with regards to most of these diseases that, unfortunately, do...

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