Practise CBGC Certification Examination with a short sample and answer explanations. These are independent learning materials, not official exam questions or a pass prediction.
Exam outline and official sources
Canadian Board of Genetic Counselling (CBGC) · Verified against the currently linked CBGC Exam Content Outline: content updated June 2018, version 2; document name updated December 2025. Reviewed 2026-10-13. The assigned workbook label combines distinct credentials: this entry maps to the Canadian examination leading to Canadian Certified Genetic Counsellor (CCGC), while ABGC awards Certified Genetic Counselor (CGC®) through a separate examination. The assigned slug is preserved. No numerical unit weights are published in the consulted Canadian outline.
This original 20-question sample covers selected topics across the outline. It does not reproduce official exam questions or cover every tested topic.
- CBGC — Certification
- CBGC — Exam Preparation Materials
- CBGC — Exam Content Outline
- CBGC — Introduction, Application Pathways and General Information
- Core Competencies for Genetic Counsellors in Canada 2025
- ABGC — About the CGC Credential
- NHGRI — Founder Effect
- NHGRI — Genetic Drift
- NHS Genomics Education — All about mitochondria: Definition and disease
- NHS GeNotes — Mitochondrial DNA testing
- NHS GeNotes — Visual communication aid: Autosomal recessive inheritance
- NHS GeNotes — Autosomal recessive inheritance
- NHS GeNotes — Penetrance
- NHS Genomics Education — Do our genes govern our fate?
- ACMG/AMP — Standards and guidelines for the interpretation of sequence variants
- NHS GeNotes — Visual communication aid: Variants of uncertain significance
- NHGRI — Frameshift Mutation
- NHS GeNotes — Microarray
- NHS GeNotes — Karyotype
- NHS GeNotes — Mosaicism
- NHGRI — Enzyme
- Newborn Screening Ontario — Phenylketonuria
- NCI — Cancer Genetics Risk Assessment and Counseling (PDQ)
- NCI — Genetic Testing for Inherited Cancer Risk
- CDC — Principles of Epidemiology, Lesson 5, Appendix A
- Newborn Screening Ontario — Screen Positive Results
- Prenatal Screening Ontario — Non-Invasive Prenatal Testing
- Prenatal Screening Ontario — Chorionic Villus Sampling
- Prenatal Screening Ontario — Amniocentesis
- AHRQ — Use the Teach-Back Method: Tool 5
- Department of Justice Canada — Genetic Non-Discrimination Act
CBGC Certification Examination
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A small group establishes an isolated community. One recessive disease-associated allele is unusually frequent among the founders and remains more common in their descendants than in the original population. There is no evidence of a survival advantage. Which mechanism best explains the initial difference?
CBGC Certification Examination
Flashcards
Epidemiology, Population, and Basic Human Genetics
Unit 1.8 — Genetic drift
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