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Special Issue: "Genetic Counseling and Genetic Testing in Precision Medicine".

Turbitt, E Jacobs, C McEwen, A

Progress in genomic technologies has spurred innovation in healthcare and medicine, contributing to improved health and well-being [...].

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Australasian Genetic Counselors' Perceptions of Their Role in Supporting Clients' Behavior Change.

Jacobs, C Turbitt, E McEwen, A Atkins, L

Genetic testing does not always change health behavior. Effective behavior change requires a theory-driven coordinated set of activities (behavior change techniques). Genetic counselors are ideally...

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A mainstreaming oncogenomics model: improving the identification of Lynch syndrome.

O'Shea, R Crook, A Jacobs, C Kentwell, M Gleeson, M Tucker, KM Hampel, H Rahm, AK Taylor, N Lewis, S Rankin, NM

INTRODUCTION: "Mainstreaming" is a proposed strategy to integrate genomic testing into oncology. The aim of this paper is to develop a mainstreaming oncogenomics model by identifying health system ...

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Defining core outcomes of reproductive genetic carrier screening: A Delphi survey of Australian and New Zealand stakeholders.

Richardson, E McEwen, A Newton-John, T Jacobs, C

OBJECTIVE: Understanding the value, benefits and harms of health interventions is needed to inform best practice and ensure responsible implementation of new approaches to patient care. Such value ...

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Views of reproductive genetic carrier screening participants regarding screening for genes associated with non-syndromic hearing loss.

Freeman, L Delatycki, MB Leach Scully, J Kirk, EP

OBJECTIVE: Reproductive genetic carrier screening (RGCS) panels often include genes associated with non-syndromic hearing loss (NSHL) despite a lack of evidence of acceptability. Although some coup...

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Genetic counseling and diagnostic genetic testing for familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and/or frontotemporal dementia: A qualitative study of client experiences.

Crook, A Jacobs, C Newton-John, T McEwen, A

Genetic counseling and diagnostic genetic testing is part of the multidisciplinary care of people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS, commonly called motor neurone disease, MND) and frontotemp...

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Toward genetic counseling practice standards for diagnostic testing in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and frontotemporal dementia.

Crook, A Jacobs, C Newton-John, T McEwen, A

Objective: Genetic counseling and diagnostic genetic testing are considered part of the multidisciplinary care of individuals with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia (F...

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Do online decision aids reflect new prenatal screening and testing options? An environmental scan and content analysis

Lu, JYT McKinn, S Freeman, L Turbitt, E Bonner, C

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How should severity be understood in the context of reproductive genetic carrier screening?

Dive, L Archibald, AD Freeman, L Newson, AJ

Reproductive genetic carrier screening provides information about people's chance of having children with certain genetic conditions. Severity of genetic conditions is an important criterion for th...

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Reproductive carrier screening: responding to the eugenics critique.

Dive, L Newson, AJ

Reproductive genetic carrier screening (RCS), when offered to anyone regardless of their family history or ancestry, has been subject to the critique that it is a form of eugenics. Eugenics describ...

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