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Inappropriate genetic testing of children
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In 1994, a working party of the UK Clinical Genetics Society produced a report on the genetic testing of children following a survey of practice and attitudes, largely among professionals in the UK,1 and the findings were summarised in an annotation in this journal.2 In response to this report, the British Paediatric Association issued a statement to members in March 1996 which referred specifically to testing children for adult onset disease. This statement recommended that it was appropriate to perform predictive testing if the onset of the condition regularly occurs in childhood or if there was a useful medical intervention that can be offered (for example, testing a 9 year old for familial adenomatous polyposis). It declared that it was inappropriate to test for untreatable adult onset diseases (for example, Huntington's disease) when formal genetic testing should wait until the "children" were old enough to request testing for themselves.
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