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.

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