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If a monogenic diagnosis is confirmed, your physician will have valuable information to propose the right measures to care for your health. If necessary, your physician can provide guidance on [...]

The physician requesting the genetic test, on your behalf, will receive the report via email. They will then provide you with the report and results during your next appointment, at which time [...]

It’s a very simple process. It can be gathered from a blood or saliva sample. In that case, a special kit is used to gather cells by gentling rubbing the gums with a swab. In other cases, you [...]

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Both diagnostic and predictive tests are medical tools that require the interpretation of a health care professional, and their intervention to establish a treatment or prevention measures if [...]

The reliability of the test depends on the level of quality at which the analysis laboratory works (as with any other health exam). In general, they are reliable. Diagnostic tests are useful [...]

In the case of predictive genetic tests, an algorithm is a mathematical formula that integrates different elements such as genetic predisposition, and personal and external risk factors. Each [...]

There are different types of genetic tests: Genetic Diagnostic tests: purpose to identify the presence of one or several genes or mutations to enable a physician to make a more informed clinical [...]

Since parents can pass on their own mutations to their descendants, when faced with a genetic disease it is important to perform a family study to determine whether other members of the family [...]

If genetic disease is caused by the mutation of a single gene, it is a “monogenic” disease. There may be additional mutations in other genes, but just one can cause a disease. Other diseases are [...]