Related Patients pane (Sample Data sub-tab for the Sample tab)
The Related Patients pane displays all the relatives of the patient who is associated with the sample. You can right-click anywhere on a related patient record to open a context menu with the following options for working with the patient record:
 | The context menu for the Related Patients pane is not enabled if the pane is blank. To add a patient relationship and enable this context menu, see To use the context menu for a patient (Patients tab). |
Option | Description |
|---|---|
Patient Details | Opens the Patient tab for the selected related patient. All the options on the Patient tab are now available for the related patient. See Accessing and Reviewing Patient Records. Note: You can also double-click a patient entry to open the Patient tab. |
Add New Relationships | The Add New Patient dialog box opens. By default, the Is Related to Existing Patient option is selected and unavailable. Add the needed relationships for the patient. See Step 3 of To add one patient at a time. |
Remove Selected Relationship | Deletes the selected relationship for the patient. To remove multiple relationships, CTRL-click as you select the relationships. |
Add All To Custom Report | Selects all the information that is displayed for the selected patient for inclusion in a custom report. See Geneticist Assistant Reports. |
Permissions | Opens the Permissions dialog box.You use the options on this dialog box to set or edit the permissions (Can Read or Can Read and Can Write) that the specified users or groups are to have for the patient record. See Setting Read and Write Permissions. |
Change Ownership | Opens the Change Patient Ownership dialog box, which displays the name of the current owner for the patient, and an option (New Owner) for selecting a new owner for the patient from a list of all the currently available and active users for your Geneticist Assistant instance. You can change the ownership for any patient if you are an Administrator user, the current owner of the patient, or if you have been granted Can Read and Can Write permissions for the patient. |
Copy | Copies all the information that is displayed for the selected patient to your client’s clipboard. You can then use standard Paste commands to paste this copied information into a third-party application such as Notepad. |
Load Columns | |
Manually | Opens the Select Columns dialog box in which you can select columns that are to be shown and clear the columns that are to be hidden dynamically, or select a configuration from the list of available column configurations. This option is also available on the column header context menu for the sub-tab. Note: For information about showing and hiding columns dynamically, see To show/hide columns in a tab pane. Note: If you set column display preferences here, then you can display preferences for variants in all the variant sub-tabs and panes (with the exception of the Sample Group columns on the Sample Variant Data sub-tab on the Sample tab and the Variant pane on the Variant tab) in a single step. See To apply shared preferences or to clear all tab preferences. |
Compact | Displays the data columns on the sub-tab in a more condensed view. To toggle the display, click Compact as needed. |
<Saved Pane Configuration Name> - Saved by <User Name> | Publicly available pane configurations. The name of the user who created a pane configuration is displayed next to the configuration name. |
Load Filters | |
Manually | Opens the Filters table for the Related Patients pane. See To filter the data that is displayed in a tab pane. |
<Filter Template Name> - Saved by <User Name> | Opens the saved Filter template for the Related Patients pane. Limits the display in the pane to only the data (fields) that are defined by the template. See To filter the data that is displayed in a tab pane. |