Product Description: ciples and recommendations on genetic service provision in a multidisciplinary way. At the workshop the main issues and principles that are presently emerging as integral parts of national and international recommendations on genetic service provision such as: - voluntary provision of services - protection of choices - patient autonomy - informed consent - nondirective counseling - confidentiality were discussed and the participants tried to assess how these principles are known, met or violated in practice according to the newest up-to-date research findings and to identify existing gaps in data provision, research and policy analy­ sis...read more

Product Description: Dramatic advances in recombinant DNA technology are about to bring fundamental changes in genetic screening. As clinically oriented researchers pursue dozens of disease genes, basic scientists dazzle us with new technologies, one of the most important being the polymerase chain reaction...read more

Product Description: 1 The success of early diagnosis and therefore of treatment of phe­ nylketonuria, inevitably suggests the possibility of early screening and treatment of other genetic metabolic abnormalities. This volume contains a summary of papers delivered at a Workshop on "Recent Advances in Screening and Management of Potentially Trea­ table Genetic Metabolic Disorders" held under the auspices of the Com­ mission of the European Communi ties, in London, U...read more