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| | Genetic Testing Getup @ LaunchBase.org (Launch Base) |
 | | The results of testing done as part of a research study are usually not available to patients or their healthcare providers. | | | When interpreting test results, healthcare professionals consider a person’s medical history, family history, and the type of genetic test that was done. | | | Many of the risks associated with genetic testing involve the emotional, social, or financial consequences of the test results. |
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http://www.launchbase.org/encyclopedia/Genetic_testing
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| | The American Geriatrics Society - Position Statement: Genetic Testing for Late-Onset Alzheimer's |
| | As with any medical technology, it is imperative that physicians who use genetic testing in their clinical practice be well educated in this area, so that they can apply the technology appropriately and communicate effectively with patients and families. | | | Geriatric health care professionals and genetic counselors need to consider this when explaining genetic testing to patients, and they may need to modify explanations and educational materials, as indicated. | | | The aim of this position statement is to highlight ethical issues related to genetic testing that are commonly seen in geriatric clinical practice. |
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http://www.americangeriatrics.org/products/positionpapers/gen_test.shtml
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| | Disowning Knowledge |
| | However, a person can maintain ignorance of her genetic condition only up to a point, since genetic tests are not the only source of information about that condition. | | | But there is another alternative: the physician can tell patients, before testing for one condition, that information about another condition will be available. | | | Many who refused the test cited the concerns about employment and insurance that I have already described, while others pointed to the psychological distress that knowledge might bring. |
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http://www.puaf.umd.edu/IPPP/rw.htm
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| | Genetic Testing |
| | Special training is required to be able to analyze and convey information about genetic testing to affected individuals and their families. | | | Information from genetic testing can affect the lives of individuals and their families. | | | Theyr are concerned about passing on a genetic problem to their children. |
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http://www.lbl.gov/Education/ELSI/Frames/genetic-testing-f.html
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| | Genetic Testing |
| | Genetic information applies not only to the person having a genetic test but also to his family members and bloodline--so this issue could affect many more people than just an individual. | | | States vary in what genetic and metabolic conditions they test--all states test for at least two conditions (phenylketonuria and hypothyroidism) and some states test for more than 20 conditions. | | | However, there are not nearly enough specially-trained genetic counselors in the country to counsel everyone considering a test. |
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http://www.sph.unc.edu/nccgph/phgenetics/testing.htm
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| | National Cancer Institute - Genetic Testing for BRCA1 and BRCA2 |
| | The direct medical risks of genetic testing are very small, but test results may have an impact on a person’s emotions, social relationships, finances, and medical choices. | | | These professionals may include doctors, genetic counselors, and other health care workers trained in genetics (such as nurses, psychologists, or social workers). | | | Individuals who decide to get tested should check with their doctor or genetic counselor to find out when test results might be available. |
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http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/Risk/BRCA
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| | Dubious Genetic Testing |
| | Based on your genetic test results, your health care practitioner can work with you to develop a customized treatment plan. | | | Many of the conditions that the Reward system is supposed to help are not covered by any of the studies; and none of the studies appears to involve use of genetic testing to select any of the products or their ingredients. | | | These tests can help you and your practitioner design a preventive program that works best for your body's unique needs and health risks. |
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http://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/Tests/genomics.html
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| | National Cancer Institute - Genetic Testing for Breast and Ovarian Cancer Risk |
| | If you are thinking about genetic testing, be sure to talk with your doctor, nurse, genetic counselor, or other health professionals, and take some time to answer these questions together. | | | Genetic testing can affect relationships with family members. | | | Talk with your doctor or other health care professional trained in genetics about your family history. |
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http://www.cancer.gov/cancerinfo/genetic-testing-breast
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| | Genetic Testing for Huntington's Disease |
| | A genetic counselor should be consulted well before conception since blood samples from family members must be obtained and analyzed in this type of testing. | | | A neurologist or psychiatrist who is knowledgeable about HD can prescribe appropriate medications, and physical, occupational and speech therapists should be consulted in the early stages of HD to be optimally effective. | | | Your relationship with your parents may also be affected by the test result. |
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http://www.lkwdpl.org/hdsa/hdtest.htm
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| | Genetic Testing |
| | Support groups and counselors, even counselors in the testing programs, can talk to you about the issues and help you decide if testing is right for you. | | | Please remember that it is a very difficult, deeply personal choice, and that it is important to respect another person's decision about their own testing, whatever that decision may be. | | | The author wishes to credit the Huntington's Disease Discussion group for valuable suggestions and feedback, as well as "Genetic Risk: To Test or Not To Test?" by Marvin M. Lipman, MD, Consumer Reports on Health, September, 1996, pg. |
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http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/~rd13/hd/testing.html
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| | Genetic Testing for Breast and Ovarian Cancer |
| | What genetics professionals and physicians can do is walk you through the process of testing and make you aware of the relevant issues involved so that you can make the best choice for yourself and your family. | | | Ultimately, the decision is a personal one, and no one can tell you with absolute certainty which choice is right for you. | | | A sample of blood will be taken, which will be sent to a specific lab (along with confidential information about your family's medical history) for analysis via one of the following three methods: |
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http://www.genetichealth.com/BROV_Genetic_Testing_for_Breast_and_Ovarian_Cancer.shtml
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| | Dog Owner's Guide: BRT: Genetic testing for breeding dogs? |
| | Testing will not identify carriers, i.e., dogs that do not have a particular condition, but can still produce it. | | | Tests should be done yearly, and dogs don’t usually experience problems until they are older. | | | It is incumbent on all breeders, and anyone who buys a dog from a reliable breeder, to be honest and open about any problems they experience. |
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http://www.canismajor.com/dog/gscreen.html
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| | NEJM -- Genetic Testing |
| | range of techniques that can be used in the testing process. | | | When tests are conducted to improve clinical management, pretest | | | Michie S, Smith JA, Heaversedge J, Read S. Genetic counseling: clinical geneticists' views. |
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http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/347/23/1867
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| | Genetic Testing |
| | The Challenge: Develop constituencies of persons with genetic conditions and their families to develop and dissemenate information in this area. | | | This section provides an opportunity to integrate the ideas presented in the BASICS and APPLICATIONS SECTIONS. | | | Family Planning: A Personal, a Family, or a Community Decision? |
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http://www.mindspring.com/~hlthdata/gentest.html
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| | Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine : Genetic testing - GoldBamboo Store |
| | Treatments -- overview of conventional methods of care or management of the condition, such as drugs, surgeries, physical therapy, etc. | | | Normal results -- for tests, describes the normal values; for treatments, describes the anticipated outcomes | | | Causes & symptoms -- process, substance or organism that produces the condition; any risk factors that increase susceptibility to the condition; signs and symptoms of the disease |
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| | CNN - Health - Genetic Testing and Insurance - August 26, 1998 |
| | Premiums are set using information about individual's health, lifestyle, family history, and diagnostic tests for everything from drug screening and heart monitoring to HIV tests. | | | Until a critical mass of genetic information has been discovered, and tests to assess it have been developed, it is unfair to allow the inequitable use of genetic testing to decide who should have access to insurance and what its costs should be. | | | Genetic testing is expensive, and in most cases can only provide limited information about the risk of disease since there are so many factors -- genetic and otherwise -- that determine who will get sick, and when. |
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http://www.cnn.com/HEALTH/bioethics/9808/genetics.part2/template.html
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| | Online NewsHour: Genetic Testing -- June 7, 2001 |
| | There, a test was performed to determine if the workers had a rare genetic condition called hereditary peripheral neuropathy. | | | One of the many symptoms of the condition is carpal tunnel syndrome. | | | Clearly this is a test that should never have been applied in this circumstance. |
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| | Genetic Professionals Paternity Test |
| | Genetic Paternity Testing Professionals serves you, our client, with one gaol in mind; to provide the most accurate paternity test results in only 5 working days, and at a low cost. | | | With so many new discoveries being made in genetic research, our goal is to educate and inform you so that you have the knowledge to make an educated decision about your paternity test. | | | We understand that confidentiality is a concern for most of our clients choosing a home DNA test, and we take the appropriate steps to ensure complete privacy. |
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| | Healthopedia.com - Genetic Testing |
| | Chromosome analysis usually is done on blood or bone marrow. | | | Genetic testing is performed when a person has a pattern of physical features that suggests a specific diagnosis. | | | Through genetic testing, healthcare providerslook for the known cause of a specific disease in someone who already has the symptoms. |
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| | GeneTests Home Page |
| | Welcome to the GeneTests Web site, a publicly funded medical genetics information resource developed for physicians, other healthcare providers, and researchers, available at no cost to all interested persons. | | | Patients with specific questions about genetic counseling or testing should contact their healthcare provider or a genetics clinic. | | | International directory of genetics and prenatal diagnosis clinics |
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| | Genetic Testing Sources at Reprogenetics.com |
| | REPROGENETICS also provides educational materials to IVF centers as well as patient consultations with board certified genetic counselors. | | | The subsequent replacement to the patient of those embryos classified by genetic diagnosis as normal. | | | Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis consists of the biopsy of a single cell per embryo, followed by its genetic diagnosis through different techniques... |
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| | Genetic Testing, S0 |
| | An educational product of HOPES, not to be used in place of medical care. | | | The science and practice of genetic testing for Huntington’s disease | | | The decision of whether or not to undergo genetic testing is intensely personal, with many factors to consider. |
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http://www.stanford.edu/group/hopes/diagnsis/gentest/s0.html
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| | Genetic testing |
| | British Medical Journal, May 12 2001, vol 322, issue 7295, p 1144 | | | Genetic testing for Alzheimers's disease: ethical and clinical issues | | | The Human Genetics Commission (HGC) is the UK government's advisory body on how new developments in human genetics will impact on people and on health care. |
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| | genome.gov Genetic Testing Task Force |
| | In keeping with the mandate of the National Human Genome Research Institute, a component of the National Institutes of Health, to ensure the smooth integration of genetic testing into medical practice, the Task Force will examine critical issues, such as: | | | Such tests may also be used to assess genetic disease risk in the general population. | | | Now, an increasing number of people with a family history of a disease may have the opportunity, through the availability of a simple blood test, to learn their inherited risk for that condition. |
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| | MedlinePlus: Genetic Testing |
| | Genomics and Medical Devices: A New Paradigm for Health Care (Food and Drug Administration) | | | Genetic Testing for Genetic Disorders: Weigh Benefits and Risks (Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research) | | | The primary NIH organization for research on Genetic Testing is the National Human Genome Research Institute |
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http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/genetictesting.html
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| | Genetic Testing |
| | Learn how to improve your health, your family's risks, how to work with your doctor, and much more. | | | There are different genetic tests for determining parentage, extended family relations, ethnicity, and ancient ancestry. | | | We can help you make the most of your test results. |
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| | GenomicsGenetic Testing |
| | The project's goal is to support a coordinated process for evaluating genetic tests and other genomic applications that are in transition from research to clinical and public health practice in the United States. | | | Why is Genetic Testing a Public Health Issue? | | | Includes a description of the ACCE model process for evaluating DNA-based (and related) testing for disorders with a genetic component and provides access to draft reviews and peer-reviewed publications based on the reviews. |
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| | Paternity Testing - DNA Test By Genetic Testing Laboratory |
| | by the AABB as a Parentage Testing laboratory. | | | DNA testing technology for human identity is the most powerful available, but we offer some of the cheapest | | | Our DNA paternity tests for human identity are the most powerful available, but we offer some of the lowest prices for the highest quality paternity tests in the industry. |
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| | FL Dept Rev - Genetic Testing |
| | The costs for genetic testing will be assessed against and recovered from the alleged father if he is found to be the biological parent through genetic testing and/or is determined to be the legal father by court or through his own agreement. | | | The cost is $45 per person tested through LabCorps of America Holdings and $51 per person tested through Orchid/Genescreen. | | | Noncustodial parents are given the opportunity to agree to paternity and/or support at the appointment if a genetic test is not desired. |
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| | The Universe of Genetic Testing |
| | It has been said that genetic testing may revolutionize the way many diseases are diagnosed. | | | However, it is helpful to first understand the basics of human genetics before any discussion of genetic testing can take place. | | | This article will briefly discuss each of these tests but will focus on the medical aspects of genetic testing. |
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| | Genetic Testing At Home - DrGreene.com |
| | This work could lead to a new era in medical testing and information, much like the Model T car did to transportation. | | | A brilliant idea may bring expensive medical tests into reach using nothing more exotic than home computer with a CD drive. | | | This could lead to easy, inexpensive home testing, not just for AIDS, pregnancy, step throat, etc. but also for a long list of genetic conditions that now require major laboratories to do sophisticated tests. |
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| | VetGen - Purebred Animal Genetic (DNA) Disease Testing and Profiling |
| | the leader in veterinary genetic disease research and genetic disease detection services for purebred animals. | | | Permission to use any material may be granted on request. | | | Using VetGen's services, combined with our valuable DNA Profiling and DNA Storage, for the first time in history, animal breeders and owners have the opportunity to eliminate targeted inherited diseases in a growing number of breeds. |
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| | UK Paternity Testing UK Trusted DNA Tests |
| | Routinely, we test 16 genetic markers and have the capability to test up to 25 markers for difficult paternity cases—more than any other laboratory performing DNA paternity tests. | | | Call us to find out how we can help your family. | | | Our Genetic Discovery laboratory is an AABB and ISO approved DNA testing lab, serving clients internationally. |
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| | IdentiGEN Genetic Testing Services |
| | This is the website of IdentiGEN Genetic Testing Services. | | | If you can't see this page then you will need to get Netscape Navigator / Microsoft Explorer Version 4 or above. |
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| | Genetic Testing |
| | Click here for information on the newly formed Secretary's Advisory Committee on Genetics, Health, and Society. | | | For information about your privacy, please see our Privacy Notice |
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| | Local Genetic Testing. Search: DNA Test Adoption Directory |
| | By using it you agree to the terms of service, including jurisdiction and limitation of liability provisions. | | | adoption professionals: Genetic Testing">email page to a friend | | | services: • Genetic Testing • Magazines & Publications |
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