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Genetic Counselling

Genetic counselling is an information session/process where people whose children are at risk of developing genetic conditions receive information regarding potential treatments, natural course of the disease, and how likely the parents are to pass on the condition (transmission). The core component of genetic counselling involves an interview before the women becomes pregnant (the preconception interview). This interview may be conducted by a variety of healthcare professionals including general practitioners, obstetricians and gynecologists, nurses, and midwives. The purpose of this interview is to give the parents advice, provide referrals to appropriate specialists, and assess and discuss potential risks. This initial interview assesses the risk that a baby/child may develop a genetic condition through a detailed family, social, and medical history. Genetic counselling can be an informative antenatal step for expecting parents.<Ioannides2017 /> Genetic counselling can inform parents of potential congenital defects (birth defects) and abnormalities before birth.<Ioannides2017 /> Screening for autosomal diseases in genetic counselling has resulted in reduced incidence in many countries. Screening is beneficial for mothers, as complications during and after delivery can sometimes be avoided. This preventative measure can be taken before conception or at early prenatal stage. During a genetic counseling session, diet and dietary supplements are often discussed with mothers if the child is at risk for neural tube defects.<Ioannides2017 /> A healthy balanced diet is encouraged, and folic acid supplementation in particular is discussed.

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Looks into how to reuse the same source multiple times to avoid repeating it in the refs section. Deleet (talk) 01:05, 9 November 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for sharing your proposed article improvements.

I adjusted your references so that they are added once. YOu can do this by clicking “re-use” when you insert your references and choose your reference to reuse from the list.

I adjusted the use of “individual” to “person”, a little more wiki-style (we avoid using “patients” etc and prefer “people” as per the WP:MEDMOS manual of style.

Can you add some wikilinks to this text? We add links to technical or medical terms the first time they are used in the Wikipedia article. There are quite a few words in this paragraph that could be linked. If they are already linked earlier in the Wikipedia article, please disregard this comment. The terms include folic acid, conception/preconception, autosomal, NTDs.

I added a citation needed tag as well. If this sentence came from the same source, please re-use it as I did to the others.

Thanks again for all your work. If you have any questions or need help with anything please do not hesitate to let me know.

JenOttawa (talk) 01:49, 9 November 2018 (UTC)