The Genetic Medicine Clinic at UWMC offers a full range of evaluation, diagnosis, assessment, genetic testing and interpretation, counseling and management. The clinic also provides referrals to appropriate resources for individuals with genetic disorders in their families or with disorders thought to have a genetic component.
In addition to general assessment, the medical genetics clinic team members have expertise in:
- Genetic counseling and testing
- Familial cancer counseling, testing and risk assessment, including breast, ovarian, colon, gastric, melanoma, pancreatic, prostate, kidney, sarcoma, thyroid, kidney, pheochromocytoma, von Hippel Lindau syndrome, Li-Fraumeni syndrome, Cowden syndrome, Birt-Hogg-Dubé, Peutz-Jeghers syndrome, familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP/attenuated FAP), MYH (MAP) polyposis Lynch (HNPCC) syndrome, hereditary breast and ovarian cancer syndrome, hereditary paraganglioma syndromes and CDH1/e-cadherin
- Neurogenetics, including the Huntington disease center of excellence; CADASIL, familial Alzheimer disease; Charcot-Marie-Tooth/hereditary motor sensory neuropathy; hereditary ataxia; movement disorders; and muscular dystrophies
- Inherited connective tissue disorders, including Marfan syndrome, Loeys-Dietz syndrome, Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, familial aneurysms and osteogenesis imperfecta
- Pediatric neurogenetics
- Genetic evaluation premature-ovarian failure
- Genetic evaluation of male infertility
- Genetic evaluation of female infertility
- Turner syndrome
- Inherited skin disorders, including ichthyosis, incontinentia pigmenti, neurofibromatosis, tuberous sclerosis and epidermolysis bullosa
- Cardiogenetics, including Long QT and other cardiac rhythm disturbances, and familial cardiomyopathy
- General genetics (primarily adults)
- Pre-pregnancy genetic counseling and testing
- Autism genetics
To fax documents, please use the clinic fax number: 206.598.3269
