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A recent commentary in Genetics in Medicine (Haga et al., 2014) highlighted a barrier for primary care use of genomic services – access. Do you know that many Canadian genetics centres have a genetic counsellor or geneticist on-call? Often part of this role is to answer questions from other clinicians and the community about genetics. You can connect with your local genetics specialist who is happy to answer your questions about appropriate referrals or genetic testing. Click here to find your local centre and connect with your local specialist.

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A Guide to understanding prenatal screening

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A resource developed for pregnant persons and their providers. Everything you wanted to know about screening from deciding whether or not have it, to results…

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The GEC-KO team will be presenting at the 2021 University of Ottawa’s Annual Refresher Course

Have some questions about how Canada’s genetic non-discrimination act works and what it means for your practice?

Check out this 2022 article in Canadian Family Physician

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