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Handbook of Genetic Counseling/Hyper-extensibility
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Hyper-extensibility
Introduction
Contracting
Review a few things about medical history
Review a few things about family history
Physical exam
Make any testing recommendations
Answer any questions
Review medical history
Review family history
Physical exam
Psychosocial Issues
Issue of nothing being wrong…may have to deal with the possibility of something else being wrong than the original thought (glaucoma/nearsightedness/Stickler's)
Mom not recognizing the hyper-extensibility of herself/children/family.
Other possible counseling issues
Dominant inheritance (Stickler's syndrome, inheritance)
Recessive inheritance
Multifactorial inheritance
Notes
The information in this outline was last updated in 2000.