Re: Question 3 -- MSJA Genetics

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Subject: Re: Question 3

Author:
Angelique

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Date Posted: 10:09:00 12/14/03 Sun
In reply to: Tina 's message, "Question 3" on 19:05:42 12/09/03 Tue

I strongly agree with Tina's answer to the first part of question 3. I would not tell my children that they inherited the gene for Alzheimer's until they were much older, maybe somewhere around late teens, early twenties. By then, they would understand inheritance and how genes work, and I would just want to make them aware that they carry the gene. I would not elaborate on the topic, but I would answer any question that they had about Alzheimer's. It would not make sense to tell a young child of this for many reasons, one of them being that they would probably become very scared and not understand what any of it means. I also agree with Tina in that it gets very complicated when family members get involved with genetic testing. I personally do not see how genetic testing could be beneficial for a child. I understand that if the parents of a child were scared that their child has the genes for the disease that they want to see if their child will be affected by it. If they are not, that is obviously great news, but then if the parents and family find out that the child will be affected by it, the parents and other family members will now worry for the rest of their life about this child. If a family wants someone to go through genetic testing, they should wait until that person is older, and then see how they feel about it. I feel that family members probably add on extra pressure to get genetic testing when the actual afflicted person does not to go through with it.

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Re: Question 3	Marissa S.	10:39:13 12/14/03 Sun