Editorial commentary on the state of clinical genetics in Brazil exemplified by the article on prenatal diagnosis by Kessler et al. Genetics and Molecular Biology (this issue)

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1The writer is one of only two genetic diagnosticians to have been certified for both molecular genetic and cytogenetic diagnosis in the Netherlands. He was the chairman of the Departments of Human Genetics within the medical schools of Leiden and subsequently Utrecht in the Netherlands and was a member of the Dutch ministry of health committee that formulated the genetic health care plan practised in the Netherlands today. He helped negotiate the logistics of financing genetic services with the health care insurers. He is not medically qualified.