[HOW SIMPLE IS "SIMPLE" GENETIC COUNSELING?].

Introduction: Genetic counselors are often compared with other medical professionals in terms of productivity, based on the number of patients seen and the time required for each patient. Prenatal genetic counseling before amniocentesis in uneventful pregnancies is considered to be a "simple" counseling, with potentially less time required for each patient. Thus, in some medical centers the duration of such consultations is limited to provide only the basic explanation without detailed collection of personal and family history, while in others the explanation is given to several patients together.

Genotype/phenotype correlation in primary congenital glaucoma patients from different ethnic groups of the Israeli population.

Purpose: To investigate the roles of CYP1B1 and MYOC mutations and characterize the phenotype of primary congenital glaucoma in Israeli patients from 3 different ethnic backgrounds.

Design: Interventional case series.

Methods: This institutional study included 34 Israeli primary congenital glaucoma patients (26 families) comprising 9 Jews (9 families), 17 non-Bedouin Muslim Arabs (10 families), and 8 Druze (7 families).