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The Role of Chronogenetics and of Gemellology in the Prevention of Genetic Morbidity*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2014

Luigi Gedda
Luigi Gedda*
Affiliation:
The Gregor Mendel Institute of Medical Genetics and Twin Research, Rome, Italy
*
Piazza Galeno 5, 00161 Roma, Italy

Abstract

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The prevention of hereditary diseases after birth is essentially based on the detection of these diseases at their preclinical level. This may be made possible through a careful pedigree examination and possible identification of a “genealogical alarm”, as well as a detailed clinical examination of the subject and possible identification of preclinical signs of the pathogenesis, i.e., of a “clinical alarm”. The respective roles of chronogenetics and of gemellology in this approach are reviewed.

Type
Research Article
Information
Acta geneticae medicae et gemellologiae: twin research , Volume 27 , January 1978 , pp. 5 - 10
Copyright
Copyright © The International Society for Twin Studies 1978

Footnotes

*

Lecture given at the International Conference of Medical Genetics devoted to “Preventable Aspects of Genetic Morbidity” held in Cairo, Egypt, in April 1978.

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