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Genetic screening and allied services: structure, process and objective

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Medico-Social Management of Inherited Metabolic Disease

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Service programmes formulated under the discipline of medical genetics are designed to reduce the burden of genetic disease among individuals in the community. In this discussion we define, in general terms, the amount and nature of genetic disease in man; then in detail the structures which appear best to serve the processes of patient intake through genetic screening or medical referral; and the processes of diagnosis, counselling and treatment which follow in the application of knowledge to patients with genetic disease.1 We conclude with comments on an existing programme, the Quebec Network of Genetic Medicine, which articulates all of these principles; their application at the national level is occurring through the accreditation of genetic centres under the newly established Canadian College of Medical Genetics.

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    D. N. Raine

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Scriver, C.R., Laberge, C., Clow, C.L. (1977). Genetic screening and allied services: structure, process and objective. In: Raine, D.N. (eds) Medico-Social Management of Inherited Metabolic Disease. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-6173-2_2

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