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• - Establish minimum standards of practice and encourage professional growth. Includes certification, training, jobs, and conferences. Many documents use the PDF file format.
  
• - Goal is to establish a database of information about people, including physical characteristics, health histories, and responses to treatments and thus speed up the rate of medical advances based on this genetic knowledge .
  
• - Offer counselling services for patients, and provide a range of educational resources for health professionals and students. Includes information leaflets, degree modules, and research studies.
  
• - Share medical genetics knowledge and resources with other health care practitioners, patients, and caregivers. Features an overview of services, chromosome and DNA testing, education, and news.
  
• - Brief overview of gene testing: what it is, how it works, what are some of the pros and cons, what tests are available. Includes a guide to further resources.
  
• - Performs genetic susceptibility testing services for common diseases which are treatable and preventable. Includes corporate and financial data, and job opportunities .
  
• - A genetic testing resource including an introduction to genetic counseling and testing and a genetics laboratory directory. From the University of Washington.
  
• - Offers prenatal and cancer genetic counseling, and genetic testing including paternity testing and Native American ancestry testing. A genetics library is also available for interlibrary loan and document delivery.
  
• - NIH funded, expert-authored descriptions of inherited disorders. Covers genetic testing in diagnosis and management and genetic counseling of patients.
  
• - Promote the profession as a recognized part of health care delivery, education, research and public policy. Includes a searchable database of counselors.
  
• - International network of academic and commercial laboratories from Europe and the US providing a range of services including paternity, maternity, twins, and relationship diagnostics.
  
• - Prepares and administers examinations and accredits training programs. Offers a range of information on examinations, guidelines, and training programs.
  
• - Information about a test for seven common inherited diseases in the Ashkenazi Jewish population: Tay-Sachs disease, Canavan disease, cystic fibrosis, Gaucher disease, Bloom syndrome, familial dysautonomia and Fanconi anemia.
  
• - Offers a range of tests including Fluorescent In Situ Hybridization (FISH) for microdeletion syndromes. Karyotypes and ideograms of normal and abnormal chromosomes are included as examples.
  
• - Offers physicians, hospitals, and laboratories, molecular techniques for the gene level diagnosis and management of diseases. Also provide DNA testing for the determination of parentage/paternity.
  
• - Develop and sell novel genetics-based detection technologies for diagnosing and monitoring cancer and other diseases. Products include both diagnostic reagent kits and medical diagnostic devices.
  
• - Develop analytics and information resource products, including platforms for genotype pattern recognition for complex trait determination. Includes an overview of services, investor relations, and career opportunities.
  
• - Molecular biological and medical diagnostic service laboratory. Mutation screening by DNA sequencing for the detection of rare genetic diseases.
  
• - Resources and genetic consultation for people with pregnancy questions related to inherited diseases, assisted conception, and pregnancy ultrasound.
  
• - Provides a large collection of resources on birth defects and on genetic/metabolic screening of infants as a component of public health.
  
• - Offers evaluation, testing and counseling for genetic diseases with information on faculty, clinical services, molecular genetics laboratory, and research interests
  
• - Genetic testing laboratory specializing in DNA analysis for common genetic disorders. Includes listing of tests available.
  
• - Provide laboratory testing and diagnostic evaluation of rare and unusual inherited metabolic diseases. Includes information on the faculty, education, research, and related resources.
  
• - Genetic testing and diagnosis company serving individuals and families suffering from severe hereditary disorders.
  
• - Diagnostic testing for inborn errors of metabolism with an emphasis on metabolic myopathies and mitochondrial diseases. Includes print-off forms and research updates.
  
• - Article by Drs. Stuart Orkin and Gary Felsenfeld describing how basic research led to genetic testing, including how the discoveries of DNA, restriction enzymes, cloning, & PCR (polymerase chain reaction) make tests for diseases like sickle-cell anemi
  
• - Portal site with links to educational resources on genetic disorder, journals, support groups, bioinformatics, and resources for researchers and clinical geneticists.
  
• - International network of laboratories offering molecular tests for a range of disorders.