What is genetic counseling?
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Genetic Counseling has three main purposes.  The first is the testing of individuals for known genetic disorders, and then counseling these individuals about their options if they are susceptible to a given disorder, or cary a gene that can be passed down to their kids for this disorder.\n\nThe second purpose is to gather information about individuals with disorders and, with the patients permission, place that information into large databases along with scientific tests in order to help scientists understand the disease better from a genetic, and molecular, standpoint.\n\nThe last purpose is to gather information from individuals with a known disorder, but for which the causative genes are not well understood.  This includes lots of blood work, as well as gathering family information (and if possible samples from the family) to search out more information about these disorders.\n\nCounseling, as it stands now in america, can give you information about what your child may or may not have, and the chances that the child will show a given trait, but this is almost always relating to a genetic disorder.  As of yet, almsot no information is tested to look at "hair color" or anything else not life altering or threatening.\n\nSome disorders are able to attack using gene therapy, though almost all therapies used so far are minimally successfull at best.  \n\nTo put it simply, genetic counseling is about getting people ready for the consequences of having a child with sepcial needs, and allowing them time and opportunity to get ready for those needs.  It very rarely includes ways of "curing" these diseases using genetic therapies, though hopefully with the advent of stem cell research and retroviral therapies, this can change.
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In most cases, pre-retirement counseling provides information regarding health insurance, pension plans (if they are available), contract work options and/or anything else that relates to your employment.  The goal is to ensure you understand what lies ahead, what options are available to you and what you need to do to make the most of your retirement years.
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Counseling, medication and exposure therapy..
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A genetic disorder is a disease that is caused by an abnormality in an individual’s DNA. Abnormalities can range from a small mutation in a single gene to the addition or subtraction of an entire chromosome or set of chromosomes.\n\nI found that it is not called a metabolic disorder but a metabolic syndrome.\nThe metabolic syndrome is characterized by a group of metabolic risk factors in one person. They include:\n\nAbdominal obesity (excessive fat tissue in and around the abdomen) \nAtherogenic dyslipidemia (blood fat disorders — high triglycerides, low HDL cholesterol and high LDL cholesterol — that foster plaque buildups in artery walls) \nElevated blood pressure \nInsulin resistance or glucose intolerance (the body can’t properly use insulin or blood sugar) \nProthrombotic state (e.g., high fibrinogen or plasminogen activator inhibitor–1 in the blood) \nProinflammatory state (e.g., elevated C-reactive protein in the blood) \nPeople with the metabolic syndrome are at increased risk of coronary heart disease and other diseases related to plaque buildups in artery walls (e.g., stroke and peripheral vascular disease) and type 2 diabetes. The metabolic syndrome has become increasingly common in the United States. It’s estimated that over 50 million Americans have it.\n\nThe dominant underlying risk factors for this syndrome appear to be abdominal obesity and insulin resistance. Insulin resistance is a generalized metabolic disorder, in which the body can’t use insulin efficiently. This is why the metabolic syndrome is also called the insulin resistance syndrome.\n\nOther conditions associated with the syndrome include physical inactivity, aging, hormonal imbalance and genetic predisposition.\n\nSome people are genetically predisposed to insulin resistance. Acquired factors, such as excess body fat and physical inactivity, can elicit insulin resistance and the metabolic syndrome in these people. Most people with insulin resistance have abdominal obesity. The biologic mechanisms at the molecular level between insulin resistance and metabolic risk factors aren’t fully understood and appear to be complex.\n\nHow is the metabolic syndrome diagnosed?\nThere are no well-accepted criteria for diagnosing the metabolic syndrome. The criteria proposed by the National Cholesterol Education Program (NCEP) Adult Treatment Panel III (ATP III), with minor modifications, are currently recommended and widely used.\n\nThe American Heart Association and the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute recommend that the metabolic syndrome be identified as the presence of three or more of these components:\n\nElevated waist circumference:\nMen — Equal to or greater than 40 inches (102 cm)\nWomen — Equal to or greater than 35 inches (88 cm) \nElevated triglycerides:\nEqual to or greater than 150 mg/dL\nReduced HDL (“good”) cholesterol:\nMen — Less than 40 mg/dL\nWomen — Less than 50 mg/dL \nElevated blood pressure:\nEqual to or greater than 130/85 mm Hg \nElevated fasting glucose:\nEqual to or greater than 100 mg/dL \nAHA Recommendation for Managing the Metabolic Syndrome:\nThe primary goal of clinical management of the metabolic syndrome is to reduce the risk for cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes. Then, the first-line therapy is to reduce the major risk factors for cardiovascular disease: stop smoking and reduce LDL cholesterol, blood pressure and glucose levels to the recommended levels.\n\nFor managing both long- and short-term risk, lifestyle therapies are the first-line interventions to reduce the metabolic risk factors. These lifestyle interventions include:\n\nWeight loss to achieve a desirable weight (BMI less than 25 kg/m2) \nIncreased physical activity, with a goal of at least 30 minutes of moderate-intensity activity on most days of the week  \nHealthy feating habits that include reduced intake of saturated fat, trans fat and cholesterol \nRelated AHA Scientific Statements:\nBlood Pressure\nCholesterol\nD
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Genetic Engineering.\n\nWhich isn't around yet, so you're stuck with what you have.
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Mendelian inheritance (or Mendelian genetics or Mendelism) is a set of primary tenets relating to the transmission of hereditary characteristics from parent organisms to their children; it underlies much of genetics. They were initially derived from the work of Gregor Mendel published in 1865 and 1866 which was "re-discovered" in 1900, and were initially very controversial. When they were integrated with the chromosome theory of inheritance by Thomas Hunt Morgan in 1915, they became the core of classical genetics.\nContents
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Yes, they discovered the gene that causes it. That should help in finding a treatment and who is at risk of having an affected child.
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I know a man who is a geneticist.  He is a professor at a well-known college.  He studies plants in his home, although I don't know specifically what his experiments involve.  He has several types of bromeliads growing in his home, he has a small greenhouse, also.  It's gorgeous in his home with all the lush plants and nearly perfect man-provided growing conditions.  \n\nHe also breeds dauchshunds and shows them around the country.  He has had some champions.\n\nHe has written papers that appear in journals and magazines.\n\nWikipedia says:\n"A geneticist is a scientist who studies genes, or a physician who diagnoses, treats, and counsels patients with genetic disorders or syndromes. These doctors are typically trained in a genetics residency or fellowship. Many are pediatricians, but some are not."
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Not sure what kind of counseling you're talking about but heres a try:\nhttp://www.co.sacramento.ca.us/portal/health-human-care/childrens-services.html\n\nhttp://www.sonoma.edu/cihs/camap/activities/sacramento_ca.html\n\nhttp://www.seta.net/resources.htm\n\nhttp://www.dss.cahwnet.gov/cdssweb/TheCalifor_191.htm
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The genetic code is the basically the set of instructions for construction and functioning of an organism. If we can understand them, and how these instructions are used, then we can possibly correct and prevent genetic diseases and defects. We can understand and possibly prevent or slow aging. We might get a handle on problems like heart disease, cancer and other diseases which appear to have a genetic component. \n\nThis is the start of what could be the greatest set of technological advances ever in the history of humanity; developing the capacity to reengineer organisms, and maybe humanity itself in useful ways. We might be able to create humans with enhanced capabilities eventually. This is potentially extremely exciting, although like all scientific and technical advances, it is fraught with potential dangers as well.
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Genetic Engineering is that branch of Biology or life science in which the gene structure of organism is altered to suit a particular purpose. In other words, it is gene manipulation.  This branch will be very helpful to make life easier to the increasing population on earth.\nExamples 1) At present rice grain is more rich in starch and poor in proteins. By application of this method the protein content of rice can be increased.\n2) Disease resistant genes can be introduced in crop plants.\n3) Bacteria can be made to produce life saving drugs at a cheaper cost. \nThus the applications are many and varied.
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Not really. You would be able to predict a few things, but reproduction is basically a reshuffling of the genetic cards, in which all the traits mother and father inherited are part of the deck, including recessive traits that may have been carried for hundreds of years without expression. What any child looks like depenmds entirely on what your hand looks like after the mother's randomly chosen cards and the father's are combined when the egg is fertilized. There are so many possible combinations that though a few things may be more likely than others, it's still the luck of the draw.
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You are asking a very important question, may I acknowledge firstly. Secondly, no one can answer this question with absolute neutrality, since there are several ethical implications regarding gene therapy. What is written is solely my viewpoint, as someone who is in science.\n\nGene therapy is a very innovative, very powerful means to identifying and curing long known chronic illnesses such as cancer. It involves alterations at the molecular level, and this is where the ethical implications come. Whether God should be the one responsible for these changes, evolution or scientists is another question. But the truth is, it can work and probably proves the ultimate therapeutic method. It   is still being worked on and of course there have not been any human clinical trials (as far as I know). But as long as the proper precautions are taken, which I believe will of course be the case since cutting edge research is what is involved, I see it to be the future scientific tool to curing several diseases and do not at all see any bad sides to it. This is without considering the occupational hazards, which every field, medicine, for example has. Whether the hazards are on a different level from that of other fields and what this can implicate is also another question. But you did not as that! Hmmm...
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Greying hair is genetic from the MOTHERS side. Take a look at your relatives.
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Not sure, but new treatments are comming....\n\nUS scientists crack entire genetic code of breast and colon cancers\n\nResearch on cancer and the genetic code looks like it may at long last  produce real breakthroughs\n\nFor more info, visit:\nhttp://www.librarynews.info/\nhttp://www.medical-research-study-directory.info/medical-research-study-directory/\nhttp://www.medical-research-study-directory.info/\nhttp://www.lasik-surgery-san-diego.info/\nhttp://www.san-diego-dentist.us\nhttp://www.san-diego-plastic-surgery-cosmetic-surgery-doctors.us/\nhttp://www.acne-treatment-medicine-1.info/
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Go to www.ask.com and type in genetics. A bunch of links come up but the really cool thing is that on the right hand side of the page are a lot of similar topics so that you can narrow or broaden your search to find what you are looking for.
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Genetic engineering, genetic modification (GM) and gene splicing are terms for the process of manipulating genes, usually outside the organism's natural reproductive process.\n\nIt involves the isolation, manipulation and reintroduction of DNA into cells or model organisms, usually to express a protein. The aim is to introduce new characteristics or attributes physiologically or physically, such as making a crop resistant to a herbicide, introducing a novel trait, or producing a new protein or enzyme,along with altering the organism to produce more of certain traits. Examples can include the production of human insulin through the use of modified bacteria, the production of erythropoietin in Chinese Hamster Ovary cells, and the production of new types of experimental mice such as the OncoMouse (cancer mouse) for research, through genetic redesign.\n\nSince a protein is specified by a segment of DNA called a gene, future versions of that protein can be modified by changing the gene's underlying DNA. One way to do this is to isolate the piece of DNA containing the gene, precisely cut the gene out, and then reintroduce (splice) the gene into a different DNA segment. Daniel Nathans and Hamilton Smith received the 1978 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for their isolation of restriction endonucleases, which are able to cut DNA at specific sites. Together with ligase, which can join fragments of DNA together, restriction enzymes formed the initial basis of recombinant DNA technology.\n\nApplications --- :\n\nThe first Genetically Engineered drug was human insulin approved by the USA's FDA in 1982. Another early application of genetic engineering was to create human growth hormone as replacement for a drug that was previously extracted from human cadavers. In 1986 the FDA approved the first genetically engineered vaccine for humans, for hepatitis B. Since these early uses of the technology in medicine, the use of GE has expanded to supply many drugs and vaccines.\n\nOne of the best known applications of genetic engineering is that you can probilize the outcome of offspring. There are potentially momentous biotechnological applications of GM, for example oral vaccines produced naturally in fruit, at very low cost.\n\nA radical ambition of some groups is human enhancement via genetics, eventually by molecular engineering. See also: transhumanism.\n\nGenetic engineering and research\nAlthough there has been a tremendous revolution in the biological sciences in the past twenty years, there is still a great deal that remains to be discovered. The completion of the sequencing of the human genome, as well as the genomes of most agriculturally and scientifically important plants and animals, has increased the possibilities of genetic research immeasurably. Expedient and inexpensive access to comprehensive genetic data has become a reality with billions of sequenced nucleotides already online and annotated. Now that the rapid sequencing of arbitrarily large genomes has become a simple, if not trivial affair, a much greater challenge will be elucidating function of the extraordinarily complex web of interacting proteins, dubbed the proteome, that constitutes and powers all living things. Genetic engineering has become the gold standard in protein research, and major research progress has been made using a wide variety of techniques, including:\n\nLoss of function, such as in a knockout experiment, in which an organism is engineered to lack the activity of one or more genes. This allows the experimenter to analyze the defects caused by this mutation, and can be considerably useful in unearthing the function of a gene. It is used especially frequently in developmental biology. A knockout experiment involves the creation and manipulation of a DNA construct in vitro, which, in a simple knockout, consists of a copy of the desired gene which has been slightly altered such as to cripple its function. The construct is then taken up by