Family History Three Generation Family

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A family history has many factors in common that play a critical role in genetic disorders. Understanding fully the hereditary contributions of the illness can help the family identify their potential risk factors of inheriting the disease (Kaakinen, Coehlo, Steele, Tabacco, Hanson, & Rowe, 2014). Throughout this paper I will discuss a genetic disease passed down through a three generation family, discussing the family’s health problems, ethnic history, their understanding of the disease and providing nursing interventions to help this family reduce their genetic health risk.
The three generation family I choose to write about are all males, a grandfather ninety-seven, a son seventy-six and a grandson fifty-two years old. All are

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