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Interpreting Your Search Results

Search results are displayed with informational links as follows:

= View a listing of laboratories that provide clinical testing for this disorder.

= View a listing of laboratories that provide testing on a research basis only.

= Read the GeneReview for this disorder.

= View and print relevant consumer health-oriented resources.

Search results appear in one or a combination of the following two formats:

1. Group(s) of Related Disorders

If your search term is a disorder that is included in a group of phenotypically related disorders or disorders caused by mutations in the same gene, the search result will display the group (see examples; note that the search term appears in bold). Each informational link is specific to the disorder it follows and to all disorders indented below it.

For example, the search term "tuberous sclerosis" will yield the following:

Tuberous Sclerosis Complex    Tuberous Sclerosis 1    Tuberous Sclerosis 2

Although phenotypically similar, tuberous sclerosis 1 and 2 are caused by mutations in different genes; tuberous sclerosis 1 and 2 are each followed by testing links specific to the genes causing them. The links to reviews and resources contain information about both TS1 and TS2.

Similarly, the search term "Tay-Sachs disease" will yield the following:

Hexosaminidase A Deficiency    Chronic and Adult-Onset Hexosaminidase A Deficiency    Juvenile (Subacute) Hexosaminidase A Deficiency    Tay-Sachs Disease

Tay-Sachs Disease, AB Variant [GM2 Activator Deficiency]

Since the term "Tay-Sachs Disease" has no informational links following it, information on Tay-Sachs Disease is accessed via the links above it (following Hexosaminidase A Deficiency).

2. Alphabetical Listing

If the disease on which you are searching is not part of a group in the GeneTests database, the search result is an alphabetical list of disorders in which the search term figures, with informational links to testing, research, reviews, and resources where available. When a search yields results in a combination of formats, the disorders in a group display first; single entries follow in alphabetical order.

For example, the search term "Rickets" will yield the following: Dent Disease           Low-Molecular Weight Proteinuria with Nephrocalcinosis         X-Linked Recessive Hypophosphatemic Rickets +/-Hypercalciuria         X-Linked Recessive Nephrolithiasis Hereditary Hypophosphatemic Rickets with Hypercalciuria   Hypophosphatemic Rickets, Autosomal Recessive   Hypophosphatemic Rickets, Dominant   Hypophosphatemic Rickets, X-Linked Dominant   Pseudovitamin D Deficiency Rickets   Rickets-Alopecia Syndrome

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(Revised 3-3-09)