Talk:Handbook of Genetic Counseling

How Can You Contribute?
If you are a genetic counselor/consultant/clinical geneticist visiting this site and using these outlines in your own practice, please considering updating the content of this book by supplementing the information with your own research findings.

Other ways in which you can contribute:
 * Clean up the outlining
 * Fix hyperlinks or add links to Wikipedia or other online resources
 * Add new outlines for conditions that have not been included in this text
 * Update Wikipedia articles on these conditions - it will improve Wikipedia and help you learn more about the condition at the same time

MIM numbers
Think it would be better, that each disease would have own MIM number with the link to OMIM in the headnote - already started add or transfer them from references. Ramujana 1 Dec, 2005
 * Seems like a good idea. Maybe once I finish transferring all of the outlines over I'll start on that.

Copyright Issues
This Handbook seems to be a Copy from, and it might be a legal copy but do not state the source nor if it is a legal copy. Also ref Copyright notice on bottom of. Have not put it on CopyVio-list as I'm not shure it is... Oyvind 12:31, 17 November 2005 (UTC)
 * That site is being taken down. It did not have enough people contributing to it because of the CMS software that was being used.  As soon as all of the outlines from that site are transferred to here, that site will be taken down.  My wife is the person who set up the other site (with my help) so she holds the "copyright" on that other site.  She is happy to move the outlines here hoping other people will contribute to them given how easy it is to do so on Wikibooks. Also, for all future reference, the content here is now being released under ghe GNU Free Documentation License.

Layman's terms
Needs some information to make it accessible to laypeople. If not intended to be read by laypeople, should state prerequisite texts.
 * I'm not sure there is a whole lot that can be done there. Ideally as other genetic counselors visit the site and use these outlines they may update the outlines and flesh them out a bit, making this more accessible for non-experts.  But keep in mind this is a handbook for genetic counselors - so it is designed with experts in mind.