A five-year-old child comes to the clinic with a cleft palate and symptoms of vision loss. Are the two conditions genetically linked? Does it run in the family? These are common questions genetic counsellors are faced with. Patients and their families primarily want to know what's the cause and what the chance is of it happening again, says Deepti Babu, a former genetic counsellor with the Medical Genetics Clinic in Edmonton.
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