Finances and genetic counseling influence the frequency of genetic testing, whether people are high risk or not.

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Genetic counseling, she explains, while invaluable for some, can be detrimental for others.

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He said the company had sought to be conservative in its rollout by limiting the test to women with risk factors and recommending that it be administered in conjunction with genetic counseling.

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"The 'bring it on, the more information the better' attitude we have about genetic testing could really come back to bite us, " says Ellen Matloff, director of cancer genetic counseling at the Yale Cancer Center.

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Genetic counseling can be a good example.

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"All patients want to hear that you don't need to have something invasive, " said Laura Limone, genetic-counseling supervisor at the perinatal group and a member of Sequenom's speakers bureau.

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Craig , Renee Dow and MaryAnne Aitken , experts in treating and counseling children with genetic diseases at Royal Children's Hospital in Australia.

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Still, it does not take a lot of people actually breaking down and crying to think that competent personal counseling always ought to be an option before finding out about your genetic destiny.

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