Genetics in practice
- GP's role
- Collecting a family history
- Ancestry - ethnicity and cultural issues
- Special considerations regarding family
history collection and Indigenous Australians or Torres Strait Islanders - Health and life insurance issues
- Ethical issues
- Drawing a pedigree
- The steps to drawing a pedigree
- Figure 1: Common pedigree symbols, definitions and abbreviations
- Abbreviations
- Relationships
- Figure 2: Degrees of relationship
- Consanguinity
- Inheritance patterns - what to look for
- Autosomal recessive inheritance
- Figure 3: Cystic fibrosis: autosomal recessive inheritance
- Autosomal dominant inheritance
- Figure 4: Huntington disease: autosomal dominant inheritance
- X-linked recessive inheritance
- Figure 5: Haemophilia: X-linked recessive inheritance
- X inactivation
- Multifactorial inheritance
- Figure 6: Cardiovascular disease (CVD): multifactorial inheritance
- Rare conditions
- Talking about genetics
- Consumers' perspective
- Common misconceptions about genetics
- Language considerations when talking about genetics
- Communicating genetic issues
- General strategies
- Assess understanding
- Use strategies to aid recall and understanding
- Deliver genetic information in plain English
- Risk
- Ways of explaining prenatal screening risk figures
- Counselling issues
- When to tell the individual
- Prior to giving the news
- When giving the news
- Afterward
- Anxiety and living with uncertainty
- Decision making
- Grief and loss
- Guilt, shame and blame
- Patient and further information
- Support groups
- Financial services
- Counselling skills
- Genetic counselling
- Grief and loss
- Psychological aspects of genetics
- Breaking difficult/bad news
- Cultural information
- Bibliography
- Patient and family fact sheets
- Genetics services
- Genetic testing and screening
- Support groups