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name: genetic-assessment
description: Use when asked to administer, score, or explain a Genetic Assessment — genetic counselling referral using weighted risk factor scoring across cancer, cardiovascular, neuro, and reproductive genetics — grounded in FormExamples/form-examples; closely related to genetics-assessment.
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# Genetic Assessment

Genetic counselling referral assessment using weighted risk factor
scoring across cancer genetics, cardiovascular genetics,
neurogenetics, and reproductive genetics.

## Scoring

**Instrument:** Risk Stratification. Range 0–6+.

- **0–2** — Low.
- **3–5** — Moderate.
- **≥ 6** — High.

## What it covers

Demographics; referral information; personal medical history; cancer
history; family pedigree; cardiovascular genetics; neurogenetics;
reproductive genetics; ethnic background and consanguinity; and genetic
testing history.

## Relationship to genetics-assessment

This assessment ([[genetics-assessment]] is the sibling entry) uses a
general 0–6+ weighted risk score across four genetics domains;
[[genetics-assessment]] is the more clinically detailed counterpart,
using a three-generation pedigree and named risk-scoring tools
(Manchester Score, Bethesda criteria) specifically for cancer genetics
referral. Check which scope and depth a given context needs.

## Common pitfalls

- **Scoring family history without a structured pedigree** — an
  informal history misses patterns (which side of the family, which
  generation, age of onset) that a proper pedigree makes visible and
  that materially affect risk interpretation.
- **Missing consanguinity or ancestry-relevant risk** — certain
  recessive conditions are meaningfully more likely in consanguineous
  relationships or in specific ancestral populations; skipping this
  section can understate risk.
- **Treating "Moderate" as not requiring referral** — moderate risk
  still typically warrants specialist genetics input per most
  frameworks; only "Low" is generally reassurance-only.

## Learn more

- [FormExamples: genetic-assessment](https://github.com/FormExamples/form-examples/tree/main/forms/genetic-assessment) for the full implementation, clinical references, and worked examples.
- [[genetics-assessment]] for the more detailed cancer-genetics-focused counterpart.