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Assisted reproductive technologies (ART) have improved during the last 20 years to the point of allowing an increasing number of previously non-fertile couples to reproduce successfully. Baby Louise Brown (the first test tube baby) is now a healthy 25 years old lady. In 1978 her birth, after a successful in vitro fertilization (IVF) procedure in a case of fallopian tubal blockage, was saluted as a major achievement in the treatment of human infertility. Since then IVF has moved from a technology capable of bypassing mechanical obstacles by permitting the encounter of gametes in cases of tube obstruction to a much more sophisticated group of technologies that allows treatment of more severe forms of infertility. Intracytoplasmatic sperm injection (ICSI) was introduced clinically in 1991 and was coupled to even more daring techniques such as MESA (Microsurgical Epididymal Sperm Aspiration) or TESE (Testicular Sperm Extraction). These techniques revolutionized the treatment of male infertility for which up to then very little could be done. By 1995, over 20 000 children had been born worldwide by means of the ICSI technique (de Mouzon 1997). Very little formal evaluation of its possible effects on the health of the children conceived

Genetic counseling is “the process of helping people understand and adapt to the medical, psychological, and familial implications of genetic contributions to disease.” Traditionally, this process includes collecting and inter-preting the family and medical history, risk assessment, a comprehensive

-fident of “no-risk ” scenarios, and yet, the discussion centers around the (un)likelihood of the genetic condition being inherited by future generations. Unlike many mainstream doctor-patient sites,genetic counseling as a clinical activity is distinctively complex, both structurally and in terms of what gets

. Keywords: Angelman syndrome, Genetic counseling, FISH, Methylation.

requiring direct access to a specified gene's DNA. For inherited diseases mapped in this way, linked DNA marker loci can be used predictively for genetic counseling.

Abstract-Widespread use of genetic tests for medical treatment and clinical genetic counseling-as a cost-effective treatment for an increasing number of hereditary disorders-has led to study of privacy and disclosure issues, and has compelled governments to limit disclosure of test results

for genetic counseling

Purpose. The aim of this paper was to investigate whether cancer genetic counseling could be considered as a stressful event and associated with more anxiety and/or depression compared to other cancer-related events for instance attending mammography screening or receiving a cancer diagnosis

to plan their families, the demand for genetic counselling has grown considerably in recent years. Genetic counselling is concerned both with making an accurate assessment of the genetic risk and with explaining this risk to those seeking advice. Accurate assessment of genetic risk depends firstly