[THE MEDICAL GENETIC COUNSELING AND PREVENTION OF INBORN AND CONGENITAL PATHOLOGY IN THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION].

The review presents main causes and tasks of organization of medical genetic counseling targeted to preventing occurrence of patients with inherent and inborn pathology in families. It is demonstrated that improvement of methods of prenatal diagnostic increased effectiveness of medical genetic counseling. The resolution of problems of medical genetic counseling depends on population education and organization of preventive activities at the level of district physicians, family physicians and gynecologists.