Browsing by Author "Jayasekara, R."
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Item Acceptance of a genetic service in Sri Lanka. a student viewpoint(Sri Lanka Medical Association. Colombo, 1986) Jayasekara, R.The attitudes of a group of final year medical students of the faculty of medicine, Colombo, on the establishment of a genetic service counselling, prenatal diagnosis and therapeutic abortion as its main components, have been analysed. More than 70perc. of the respondents reacted positive to various aspects of the three genetic components. Of the variable sex, religion and awareness of the existence of a human genetic unit providing genetic counselling only religion had a significant impact on the response "genetic counselling is both a usefull and necessary medical service"Item Chromosome anomalies in Sri Lanka. a cytogenetic profile(Sri Lanka Medical Association. Colombo, 1988) Jayasekara, R.The spectrum of chromosome anomalies detectedin a population refrred tothe human genetics unit, faculty of medicine, Colombo, using lymphocyte culture and giemsa banding technique, is reported. The availability and usefulness of chromosome analysis and its direct application in the preventive and curative aspects of medicine is stressed. Down syndrome showed a significantly high incedence, but with an unexpectedly high frequency of trisome 21 due to non-disjunction in young parent. The possibility of the existence of other genetics or environmental factors stronger than the influence of ageing gemetic cells, which might trigger off non-disjunction in young Sri Lankans, is suggestedItem Factors influencing the age at natural menopause in Sinhalese women(The Sri Lanka Medical Association. Colombo, 1994) Jayasekara, R.Item Screening for turner syndrome. how useful is the buccal smear test?(The Sri Lanka Medical Association:Colombo, 1992) De Mel, T.; Jayasekara, R.; Warnasooriya, N.Item Skeletal fluorosis with neurological complications(Sri Lanka Medical Association. Colombo, 1994) Dissanayake, J.K.; Abeygunasekara, A.; Jayasekara, R.; Ratnatunga, C.; Ratnatunaga, N.V.I.