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[Genetic counseling for adults: the risk of late-onset inherited diseases].

La Revue du praticien - 1 Apr 2011

Dürr Alexandra, Feingold Josué

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Genetic counselling for adults is not classical since it deals with prospective assessment of risk in developing disease. 1% of adults have a monogenic disease, or are carriers of a genotype predisposing to a disease. Situations that need genetic counselling are: confirmation of a diagnosis of an inherited disease already known in the family; discovery of a new genetic disease in an adult with no family history...

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