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Breaking difficult news in a newborn setting: Down syndrome as a paradigm

12 Jul 2006

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Breaking the difficult news of an unexpected diagnosis to parents in the newborn setting is a common occurrence in genetic counseling. Many clinical geneticists and genetic counselors have had the challenge of delivering a postnatal diagnosis of Down syndrome to parents of newborns. Down syndrome is a common chromosome condition occurring in approximately 1 in 800 live births. Presenting the diagnosis to families...

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PMID: 17048355
DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.c.30100

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