ReviewJournal of community genetics2019
Ethics in genetic counselling.
Review in Journal of community genetics, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 36 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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36 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 67 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Guidelines for genetic counselling supervision in Europe: a roadmap for ethical, effective, and reflective practice.European journal of human genetics : EJHG · 2026Review
- Personal values, professional responsibilities and non-invasive prenatal testing: reflections of genetic counsellors in Australia.Journal of community genetics · 2026Article
- Appearance-related stigma and its implications for genetic counselling practice.Journal of community genetics · 2026Article
- Non-Directiveness and Authenticity in the Predictive Genetic Clinic.Sociology of health & illness · 2026Article
- Carrier screening for multiple complex monogenic diseases using long-read sequencing: a population-based study of premarital couples in Shanghai.Human genomics · 2025Article
- "Choosing the main character": healthcare professionals' attitudes towards counselling patients about risk disclosure to relatives in the era of mainstream cancer genetic testing.Familial cancer · 2025Article
- Early-career genetic counselors' professional identity formation through experiences with continuing education at a professional conference.Journal of genetic counseling · 2025Article
- Lost in .*VCF Translation. From Data Fragmentation to Precision Genomics: Technical, Ethical, and Interpretive Challenges in the Post-Sequencing Era.Journal of personalized medicine · 2025Review
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- Perceptions of patients and stakeholders on a prenatal sickle cell disease screening and its results among tribal populations of Gujarat: a participatory mixed-method research.Journal of community genetics · 2025Article
- Analysis of Nursing Education Curricula in Spain: Integration of Genetic and Genomic Concepts.Nursing reports (Pavia, Italy) · 2024Review
- Predicting age of onset and progression of disease in late-onset genetic neurodegenerative diseases: An ethics review and research agenda.European journal of human genetics : EJHG · 2024Review
- Molecular Pathology of Myotonic Dystrophy Type 1 in Iceland.Molecular genetics & genomic medicine · 2024Article
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- Cardiomyopathy in Children and Adolescents in the Era of Precision Medicine.Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia · 2024Review
- The Importance of Molecular Genetic Testing for Precision Diagnostics, Management, and Genetic Counseling in MODY Patients.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Article
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2 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
Difficult ethical issues arise for patients and professionals in medical genetics, and often relate to the patient's family or their social context. Tackling these issues requires sensitivity to nuances of communication and a commitment to clarity and consistency. It also benefits from an awareness of different approaches to ethical theory. Many of the ethical problems encountered in genetics relate to tensions between the wishes or interests of different people, sometimes even people who do not (yet) exist or exist as embryos, either in an established pregnancy or in vitro. Concern for the long-term welfare of a child or young person, or possible future children, or for other members of the family, may lead to tensions felt by the patient (client) in genetic counselling. Differences in perspective may also arise between the patient and professional when the latter recommends disclosure of information to relatives and the patient finds that too difficult, or when the professional considers the genetic testing of a child, sought by parents, to be inappropriate. The expectations of a patient's community may also lead to the differences in perspective between patient and counsellor. Recent developments of genetic technology permit genome-wide investigations. These have generated additional and more complex data that amplify and exacerbate some pre-existing ethical problems, including those presented by incidental (additional sought and secondary) findings and the recognition of variants currently of uncertain significance, so that reports of genomic investigations may often be provisional rather than definitive. Experience is being gained with these problems but substantial challenges are likely to persist in the long term.
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