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Linking family history in obstetric and pediatric care: assessing risk for genetic disease and birth defects.
Pediatrics - 1 Sept 2007
Dolan Siobhan M, Moore Cynthia
Abstract excerpt
Family history captures the collective influence of shared genetic susceptibility, shared environmental factors, and common behaviors within families. Throughout the reproductive continuum, pediatricians, obstetricians, family practitioners, genetic counselors, and other clinicians can work with families to elicit relevant family history information and factor it into risk-assessment calculations and, when...
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