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Medical Genetics

Dra. Lamiya ALIYEVA

  • Medical Genetics
  • Genetic Counseling
  • Cancer Genetics
  • Hereditary and Rare Disease

Acıbadem Altunizade HospitalDepartment of Medical Genetics · Istanbul

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What Is Medical Genetics?

Medical genetics studies how changes in DNA, genes and chromosomes relate to health, and provides genetic counseling for hereditary disease. The aim is to interpret a result together with the person and the family history, not to treat a laboratory printout as a diagnosis by itself.

A visit may include a pedigree, clinical findings and prior laboratory reports. Karyotype, molecular tests, carrier screening, cancer predisposition panels and prenatal tests can be part of that discussion. Whether a test is useful is decided for each referral.

Who Is a Medical Geneticist?

A medical geneticist is a physician who has completed specialty training in medical genetics. Counseling covers suspected hereditary disease, recurrent pregnancy loss, familial cancer, childhood genetic syndromes and unexplained clinical pictures.

Lamiya ALIYEVA, MD graduated from Azerbaijan Medical University in 2014 and completed medical genetics training at Uludağ University Faculty of Medicine in 2020. She has been with Acıbadem Healthcare Group since 2021.

What Does Medical Genetics Cover?

Medical genetics relates changes in DNA, genes and chromosomes to the health of a person and a family. Common reasons for referral:

Genetic counseling

  • Family history and pedigree
  • Clinical frame for inherited risk
  • Explanation before and after testing
  • Information for relatives

Hereditary disease

  • Single-gene conditions
  • Chromosome disorders
  • Familial Mediterranean fever and MEFV
  • Recurrent clinical pictures

Cancer genetics

  • Familial breast and ovarian cancer history
  • BRCA and other predisposition genes
  • Assessment of inherited cancer risk
  • Reading of existing panel reports

Prenatal and reproductive genetics

  • Preconception counseling
  • Carrier-screen interpretation
  • Prenatal test results
  • Recurrent pregnancy loss

Carrier status

  • Couple carrier assessment
  • A known familial mutation
  • Common inherited conditions
  • What a result means for family planning

Rare disease

  • Osteogenesis imperfecta
  • Connective tissue and skeletal dysplasia
  • Unexplained multisystem findings
  • Rare gene disorders

Neurogenetics and development

  • Suspected developmental delay
  • Fragile X–related assessment
  • Familial neurological disease
  • Suspected childhood genetic syndromes

Test interpretation

  • Molecular genetic reports
  • Karyotype and chromosome analysis
  • Clinical meaning of a variant
  • Second-opinion review of reports

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Lamiya ALIYEVA, MD is a medical genetics specialist. Her clinical work centers on suspected hereditary disease, family history, cancer genetics and interpretation of existing genetic test results. She practices in the Medical Genetics Department at Acıbadem Altunizade Hospital.

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