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Family Health History: Your Family History, Your Future

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Genetic Alliance

Description

Your family history holds key information about your past and clues to your future health. This document provides instructions on how to collect a family history by talking to your relatives and how to record a family history by drawing a family tree called a "pedigree."

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Review Date

4/5/2007

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