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.
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Division of Genetics and Metabolism, University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, Dallas 75235.
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