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This section of the website is all about the Genetics of Retinoblastoma. Please let us know if you cannot find the information you are looking for; if you have any comments about this section please contact us info@chect.org.uk.

We are members of the Genetics Interest Group. If you would like to find out more about the work they do please visit their website. click here. www.gig.org.uk.

The Genetics Interest Group currently have some useful leaflets designed for people who are seeing or who will be seeing a Geneticist. To look at the leaflets avaliable please click on the link below.

www.gig.org.uk/eurogentest_patientleaflets.htm

The information about genetics on our website was written in 2006 by Megan Pritchard and reviewed by Dr Elisabeth Rosser.

TheRetinoblastoma Genetics Screening Unit at Barts and the London NHS Trust have a website. This website has information about the type of testing they do. It also includes detailed information about genetics and a useful glossary of terms. This is a website that you, your GP, local genetic counsellor and ophthalmologist may find useful. To visit the website click on the link below.

www.bartsandthelondon.nhs.uk/Retinoblastoma/

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Advice for concerned parents

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