Genetics is one of the most advanced medical specialties in the field. It involves diagnosis of individuals who are at risk of having genetic disorders.
Genetic disorders are a result of structural or numerical abnormality either in the chromosomes or in the genes due to mutations or changes at the gene level. These disorders may be inherited from one or both parents or de novo (i.e., a new mutation not inherited from parents).
Al Soor Genetic Clinic provides genetic counselling and clinical management by highly specialised genetic counsellors along with genetic testing which involves carrying out a range of tests on samples of DNA taken from blood, skin, saliva, amniotic fluid (the fluid that surrounds the baby during pregnancy), chorionic villous samples (cvs) and any other tissue samples.
Genetic Counselling
For families with a history of genetic disorders, genetic counselling provides detailed information and professional assessment about a patient's risk factors. It aims to help people understand their genetic condition, in order to help manage and prevent these disorders. Genetic counselling sessions typically last one hour or longer.
A genetic counsellor can help you understand:
- Genetic disease (including symptoms and prognosis)
- Availability of genetic testing
- Interpretation of the results of your genetic testing and co-relation with the clinical picture (phenotype)
- How a genetic health condition may affect your family members
- The risk calculation of passing on your genetic health condition to your children
- How to prevent genetic health conditions through prenatal diagnosis or Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis (PGD)
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