Significance of genetic counseling

Prevention of hereditary diseases. Genetic counseling is closely combined with clinical medicine, and its significance lies in preventing hereditary diseases, identifying patients and carriers of hereditary diseases in time, predicting the risk rate of their sick offspring, and discussing preventive measures to be taken, so as to reduce the birth of hereditary diseases, reduce the incidence of hereditary diseases, and improve the genetic quality and population quality of the population. Genetic counseling is an essential part of gene sequencing turning to clinical application, and genetic counselors play a core role in it. Genetic counselors can promote advanced technology to the public in an easy-to-understand way, and at the same time provide suggestions and related solutions for genetic problems encountered by the general public, so that advanced technology can be quickly and accurately transformed into clinical applications.