Professionals' views on providing personalized recurrence risks for de novo mutations: Implications for genetic counseling.

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When an apparent de novo (new) genetic change has been identified as the cause of a serious genetic condition in a child, many couples would like to know the risk of this happening again in a future pregnancy. Current practice provides families with a population average risk of 1%-2%. However, this figure is not accurate for any specific couple, and yet, they are asked to make decisions about having another child...

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