Emerging Health

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Use the Surgeon General's Family History Tool at (http://www.hhs.gov/familyhistory/portrait/index.html) to complete this assignment.

Directions:

Use the Surgeon General's Family History Tool (http://www.hhs.gov/familyhistory/portrait/index.html) to document your own family history.

Designate a proband for the pedigree with a disease or condition of interest.

Write a 750-1,000-word summary of your findings. Include the following information:

Discussion of the heredity patterns discovered.

Evaluate the risk of transmission to other/new family members.

Propose the feasibility of using this tool in your own practice.