Genetic consultation is to give information to the patients who are having a genetic disease or having a risk of a genetic disease, to their relatives regarding the advancement of the illness, treatment methods, the risk of recurring of the illness and solutions. The primary duty of consultants is to convey the correct information and to show people some solutions. Therefore genetic consultancy should never be in a way of directing the patients, contrarily all information should be given understandably and the decision should be given to them.

The situations which genetic consultancies are offered

• A genetic or inherited disease or carriage of the illness.
• Having children who have genetic disease.
• Physical abnormalities found after the birth.
• Growth retardation and shortness
• Anomalies in sex
• Mental retardation
• Recurrent pregnancy loss
• Encountering a teratogen agent
• Advanced maternal age (older than 35)
• Marriage between relatives
• Infertility
• Diagnosing a problem at baby in the stage of pregnancy