Article
Approaches to the patient with neurogenetic disease.
Clinics in laboratory medicine - 1 Dec 2010
Bird Thomas D
Abstract excerpt
The clinical practice of neurogenetics is complex, challenging, and rewarding. Several guidelines are helpful. This article briefly focuses on 8 aspects of clinical neurogenetics, namely (1) factors suggesting the presence of a genetic disease, (2) nonspecific categories that may be hiding neurogenetic diseases, (3) importance of family history, (4) assessment of sporadic cases, (5) genetic counseling, (6)...
Topics
- Genetic Counseling
- Genetic Predisposition to Disease
- Genetic Testing
- Humans
- Nervous System Diseases
- Pedigree
