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The Nurse Is Counseling a Woman with the Huntington Gene

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The nurse is counseling a woman with the Huntington gene who wants to become pregnant. What teaching would be most appropriate?


A) Advise the woman not to become pregnant.
B) Recommend genetic testing of fertilized eggs with in vitro fertilization.
C) Advise the woman to become pregnant and have amniocentesis at 14 to 18 weeks.
D) Recommend use of a donor egg.

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