Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2-1-2019
Keywords
JGM
JAX Source
Eur J Hum Genet 2019 Feb; 27(2):183-197
Volume
27
Issue
2
First Page
183
Last Page
197
ISSN
1476-5438
PMID
30291341
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41431-018-0252-x
Abstract
The profession of genetic counseling (also called genetic counselling in many countries) began nearly 50 years ago in the United States, and has grown internationally in the past 30 years. While there have been many papers describing the profession of genetic counseling in individual countries or regions, data remains incomplete and has been published in diverse journals with limited access. As a result of the 2016 Transnational Alliance of Genetic Counseling (TAGC) conference in Barcelona, Spain, and the 2017 World Congress of Genetic Counselling in the UK, we endeavor to describe as fully as possible the global state of genetic counseling as a profession. We estimate that in 2018 there are nearly 7000 genetic counselors with the profession established or developing in no less than 28 countries.
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Abacan M,
Alsubaie L,
Barlow-Stewart K,
Caanen B,
Cordier C,
Courtney E,
Davoine E,
Edwards J,
Elackatt N,
Gardiner K,
Guan Y,
Huang L,
Malmgren C,
Kejriwal S,
Kim H,
Lambert D,
Lantigua-Cruz P,
Lee J,
Lodahl M,
Lunde Å,
Macaulay S,
Macciocca I,
Margarit S,
Middleton A,
Moldovan R,
Ngeow J,
Obregon-Tito A,
Ormond K,
Paneque M,
Powell K,
Sanghavi K,
Scotcher D,
Scott J,
Juhé C,
Shkedi-Rafid S,
Wessels T,
Yoon S,
Wicklund C.
The Global State of the Genetic Counseling Profession. Eur J Hum Genet 2019 Feb; 27(2):183-197
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