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Pilot study of a culturally sensitive intervention to promote genetic counseling for breast cancer risk

BMC Health Services Research, 2022
Background Despite the benefits of genetic counseling and testing, uptake of cancer genetic services is generally low and Black/African American (Black) women are substantially less likely to receive genetic services than non-Hispanic White women.
Vida Henderson, Jessica M. Madrigal, Le’ Chaun Kendall, Pooja Parekh, Jennifer Newsome, Ifeanyi Beverly Chukwudozie, De Lawnia Comer-Hagans, Vickii Coffey, Giesela Grumbach, Shirley Spencer, Carolyn Rodgers, Ravneet Kaur, Lara Balay, Tara Maga, Zo Ramamonjiarivelo, Catherine Balthazar, Robert Winn, Karriem Watson, Angela Odoms-Young, Kent F. Hoskins   +19 more
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EXAMINING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN GENETIC COUNSELORS’ IMPLICIT ATTITUDES TOWARD DISABILITY AND THEIR PRACTICE METHODS [PDF]

, 2018
Genetic counselors serve as a link between the medical community and the disability community as they are regularly the first exposure families have following a new diagnosis in a pregnancy, infant or child.
Gould, Helen W
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Medical Genetic Counseling Of Women With Congenital Heart Diseases Of Fetus [PDF]

, 2019
Aim of the work. Determine the effectiveness of prenatal diagnosis of congenital heart defects in the fetus and the informativeness of different markers used in the medical-genetic counseling of pregnant women..Materials and methods.
Helner, N. (Nadiya), Makukh, H. (Halyna), Prokopchuk, N. (Natalia), Sharhorodska, Y. (Yevheniya)   +3 more
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Genetic counseling

Jornal de Pediatria, 2008
The objective of this review of genetic counseling (GC) is to describe the current concepts and philosophical and ethical principles accepted by the great majority of countries and recommended by the World Health Organization, the stages of the process, its results and the psychological impact that a genetic disease has on a family.The concepts ...
openaire   +2 more sources

Cancer genetic counselling

Annals of Oncology, 2005
No abstract ...
MANDICH P, CAVALLI P, PASINI, Barbara
openaire   +5 more sources

Circulating histones as clinical biomarkers in critically ill conditions

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Circulating histones are emerging as promising biomarkers in critical illness due to their diagnostic, prognostic, and therapeutic potential. Detection methods such as ELISA and mass spectrometry provide reliable approaches for quantifying histone levels in plasma samples.
José Luis García‐Gimenez, Juan Carlos Ruiz‐Rodríguez, Ricard Ferrer, Raquel Durá, Antonio Artigas, Iván Bajaña, David Bolado López de Andujar, Irene Cánovas‐Cervera, Adrián Ceccato, Luis Chiscano‐Camón, Elena Climent‐Martinez, Georgia García Fernández, Gemma Goma, Verónica Monforte, Beatriz Quevedo‐Sánchez, Adolf Ruiz‐Sanmartín, Antonio Sierra‐Rivera, Nieves Carbonell Monleón   +17 more
wiley   +1 more source

Global Awakening in Genetic Counseling [PDF]

, 2008
The article by Ricki Lewis, Nature, Volume 449,October 18, 2007, correctly points out that the genetic counseling profession is on the "verge of being discovered by the rest of the world".
Jacquie Greenberg, Janice Edwards, Margaret Sahhar   +2 more
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Insights into pegRNA design from editing of the cardiomyopathy‐associated phospholamban R14del mutation

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
This study reveals how prime editing guide RNA (pegRNA) secondary structure and reverse transcriptase template length affect prime editing efficiency in correcting the phospholamban R14del cardiomyopathy‐associated mutation. Insights support the design of structurally optimized enhanced pegRNAs for precise gene therapy.
Bing Yao, Qiangbing Yang, Christian J.B. Snijders Blok, Mark A. Daniels, Pieter A. Doevendans, Raymond Schiffelers, Joost P.G. Sluijter, Zhiyong Lei   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Racial disparities in cancer genetic counseling encounters: study protocol for investigating patient-genetic counselor communication in the naturalistic clinical setting using a convergent mixed methods design

BMC Cancer, 2023
Background Despite decades of effort to reduce racial cancer disparities, Black people continue to die at higher rates from cancer than any other U.S. racial group.
Nao Hagiwara, Nadia Harika, Erin P. Carmany, Yongyun Shin, Susan Eggly, Shawn C. T. Jones, John Quillin   +6 more
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Examining the impact of genetic testing for type 2 diabetes on health behaviors: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

Trials, 2012
Background We describe the study design, procedures, and development of the risk counseling protocol used in a randomized controlled trial to evaluate the impact of genetic testing for diabetes mellitus (DM) on psychological, health behavior, and ...
Voils Corrine I, Coffman Cynthia J, Edelman David, Maciejewski Matthew L, Grubber Janet M, Sadeghpour Azita, Cho Alex, McKenzie Jamiyla, Blanpain Francoise, Scheuner Maren, Sandelowski Margarete, Gallagher M, Ginsburg Geoffrey S, Yancy William S   +13 more
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