1. SECTIONS:
2. preface & acknowledgements
3. genetics at a glance
4. contacts, support & testing
5. testing & pregnancy
6. newborn screening
7. cancer in the family
8. cardiovascular conditions
9. chromosomal conditions
10. clotting & bleeding conditions
11. cystic fibrosis
12. diabetes
13. fragile X syndrome and other causes of developmental delay
14. haemoglobinopathies
15. hereditary haemochromatosis
16. neurofibromatosis
17. neurological conditions
18. psychiatric conditions
19. genetics in practice
20. emerging genetic technologies
21. glossary

Neurological conditions

1. Diagnostic genetic testing is available through neurological/Genetics Services for:
2. Huntington disease (HD)
   
3. Early-onset familial Alzheimer disease (EoFAD)
4. Criteria for EoFAD:
5. 2 or more affected relatives with onset <65 yrs in more than one generation with clinical or pathological diagnosis of Alzheimer disease
   
6. Relative with identified causative mutation
7. Consider referral of asymptomatic at-risk relatives to Genetics Services for counselling and discussion of predictive genetic testing for HD and EoFAD.

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