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Inclusion of medical genetics in primary health care: report of a pilot project in Brazil

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Acknowledgments

We would like to thank the March of Dimes Foundation (Global Network for Mother and Infant Health-GNMIH), Instituto Genética para Todos, INAGEMP, and CAPES for their financial support.

The authors wish to express their sincere gratitude to Andressa Federhen, Antonette El Husny, Camila Bittar, Carolina Souza, Fernanda Vianna, Flávia Ferreira, Ida Schwartz, Louise Pinto, Maria Teresa Sanseverino, Tatiele Nalin, and all the others who contributed to this project.

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  1. Maria Verónica Muñoz-Rojas

    Present address: Medical Department, Genzyme do Brasil, São Paulo, Brazil

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Postgraduate Program in Medical Sciences, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil

    Taiane Alves Vieira & Roberto Giugliani

  2. Medical Genetics Service, Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, Rua Ramiro Barcelos, 2350, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil, CEP 90035-903

    Taiane Alves Vieira, Larissa Pozzebon da Silva, Lavínia Schuler Faccini, Júlio César Loguercio Leite, Osvaldo Alfonso Pinto Artigalás, Maria Verónica Muñoz-Rojas & Roberto Giugliani

  3. INaGeMP—Instituto Nacional de Genética Médica Populacional, Porto Alegre, Brazil

    Taiane Alves Vieira, Lavínia Schuler Faccini & Roberto Giugliani

  4. Bioethics Service, Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre, Brazil

    Taiane Alves Vieira

  5. Department of Social Medicine, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul School of Medicine, Porto Alegre, Brazil

    Camila Giugliani

  6. Department of Genetics, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil

    Lavínia Schuler Faccini & Roberto Giugliani

  7. Children’s Hospital, Grupo Hospitalar Conceição, Porto Alegre, Brazil

    Osvaldo Alfonso Pinto Artigalás

  8. Community Health Service, Grupo Hospitalar Conceição, Porto Alegre, Brazil

    Maria Lúcia Medeiros Lenz

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Vieira, T.A., Giugliani, C., da Silva, L.P. et al. Inclusion of medical genetics in primary health care: report of a pilot project in Brazil. J Community Genet 4, 137–145 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12687-012-0110-4

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