Building awareness on genetic counselling: the launch of Italian Association of Genetic Counsellors (AIGeCo)

Crimi, Marco; Mineri, Rossana; Godino, Lea; Bertonazzi, Benedetta; Bruzzone, Carla; Pivetta, Barbara; Cordier, Christophe; Coviello, Domenico A.; Feroce, Irene

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Building awareness on genetic counselling: the launch of Italian Association of Genetic Counsellors (AIGeCo)

Marco Crimi ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0001-6903-9163¹^na1,
Rossana Mineri²^na1,
Lea Godino³,
Benedetta Bertonazzi³,
Carla Bruzzone⁴,
Barbara Pivetta⁵,
Christophe Cordier⁶,
Domenico A. Coviello⁷ &
Irene Feroce⁸

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This study was partially supported by the Italian Ministry of Health with Ricerca Corrente and 5x1000 funds and by a grant from Fondazione della Comunità Bergamasca awarded to MC.

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Marco Crimi and Rossana Mineri contributed equally to this work.

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Kaleidos SCS onlus, Scientific Office, Via Moretti 20, 24121, Bergamo, Italy
Marco Crimi
Cytogenetics and Medical Genetics Section, Laboratory Medicine, IRCCS Humanitas Clinical and Research Center, Rozzano, MI, Italy
Rossana Mineri
Unit of Medical Genetics, S. Orsola-Malpighi Hospital, Bologna, Italy
Lea Godino & Benedetta Bertonazzi
IRCCS Policlinico San Martino Hospital, Genoa, Italy
Carla Bruzzone
Medical Genetics Unit, ASFO, Santa Maria degli Angeli Hospital, Pordenone, Italy
Barbara Pivetta
Synlab Genetics, Lausanne, Switzerland
Christophe Cordier
Laboratory of Human Genetics, IRCCS Istituto Giannina Gaslini Hospital, Genoa, Italy
Domenico A. Coviello
Division of Cancer Prevention and Genetics–IEO, European Institute of Oncology IRCCS, Milan, Italy
Irene Feroce

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Crimi, M., Mineri, R., Godino, L. et al. Building awareness on genetic counselling: the launch of Italian Association of Genetic Counsellors (AIGeCo). J Community Genet 11, 495–496 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12687-020-00483-3

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Published: 18 August 2020
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12687-020-00483-3