Office approach to the genetics patient.
Knowledge of a few disease categories and their associated laboratory tests can award the pediatrician full partnership in the management of genetic disease. The provision of a DNA test for cystic fibrosis is a recent example of the important advances occurring in genetics. Only the enlightened practitioner can ensure that patients have full and proper access to such advances.
Division of Genetics and Metabolism, University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, Dallas 75235.
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