Genetic screening
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See for
genetic testing, paternity testing
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Broader Terms
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Related Terms
family genetics, gene expression, genetic disorder diagnosis, genetic library, genetic susceptibility, genotype, high throughput technology, karyotype, mass screening, phenotype
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Scope Note
examining a population for certain genotypes, phenotypes or karyotypes; may be associated with disease or predisposition to disease.
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Facts (generated by robot; please edit if you find it inaccurate)
- Genetic Screening Genetic screening is a process to analyze blood or skin for the systematic search for persons with a particular genotype in a defined population.
- Increasingly, genetic screening is part of the normal practice of medicine.
- The patient's decision to undergo genetic screening is complicated by the technical difficulty of the test, the substantial cost and the still incomplete understanding of the penetrance of disease in known mutation carriers.
- Genetic screening is often advocated as a means of significantly reducing the incidence of occupational disease.
- The significance of the debate about what constitutes a disease is underscored by the two broad questions which underlay the current debate: Who decides whether or not testing is done; and what happens to that information? Clearly genetic screening is going to be done.
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