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Tag: Genetic Testing

Expanded Genetic Carrier Screening for Preconception

Expanded genetic carrier screening for preconception is a crucial tool modern healthcare that aims to empower individuals and couples with knowledge about their potential risk of passing on inheritable genetic…

How Genetics Can Affect Pregnancy

Patients who have lost a pregnancy or worry that there is a genetic cause of their infertility consider genetic testing to improve the success of pregnancy. If you are trying…

Preimplantation Genetic Screening (PGS) and Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis (PGD) Now Have New Names

Preimplantation Genetic Screening (PGS) and Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis (PGD) now have new names. In order establish consistency across infertility clinics, the International Glossary on Infertility and Fertility Care recently published…

Why Genetic Testing?

At least one in 30 people are a carrier of a genetic disorder. Most carriers don’t have a family history of a genetic disease. Many patients ask us why genetic…

What Genetic Screening is Available After a Woman is Already Pregnant?

Previous FCNE blogs have reviewed genetic screening of embryos before they are implanted within the uterus; this is known as preimplantation genetic diagnosis or PGD. What genetic screening is available…

Genetic Disease – Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA)

Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is an inherited disease that affects an infant’s muscular activity. Voluntary muscles are driven by motor neurons. Children with SMA are missing a gene that is…

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