Problems related to genetic counseling

Genetic counseling in a broad sense includes the treatment of monogenic and polygenic genetic diseases, prenatal diagnosis, guidance on marriage, pregnancy, childbirth and infant health care, the danger of consanguineous marriage, the influence of reflexivity on heredity, paternity test and so on.

1) Genetic counseling objects: Common genetic counseling objects include children with unexplained mental retardation, schizophrenia or congenital malformation, parents who can't take care of themselves, couples who have repeated abortions or stillbirths for unknown reasons, couples who have been infertile for many years after marriage, elderly pregnant women over 35 years old, young men and women who have been exposed to adverse environmental factors for a long time, pregnant women who have been exposed to adverse environmental factors during pregnancy, and pregnant women with certain chronic diseases. Routine inspection is common.

2) Genetic counselor

3) Problems frequently encountered in genetic counseling.

4) gene inquiry step: information collection, diagnosis, calculation of disease recurrence risk rate, and suggestions to patients and their families.

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5) The concept of human genetic diseases: diseases caused by genetic defects in the next generation genome due to the environmental or genetic influence of fertilized eggs or mothers are called genetic diseases. Monozygote gene, polygene, chromosome disease.

6) Genetic abnormalities related to male infertility: mainly including sperm chromosome aneuploidy, structural abnormalities, DNA damage, etc. 7) Genetic abnormalities related to female infertility: mainly including chromosome number and structural abnormalities and monogenic genetic diseases.

8) Sexual development abnormality

9) Genetic abnormality of recurrent abortion: It mainly includes chromosome abnormality of couples and embryos.

10) Genetic counseling before PGD/PGS.