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View Post: Geneticist Highlights Limitations of Prenatal Testing
9 Nov 2009
Dr. Brian Skotko, a geneticist at Children's Hospital Boston, has published research showing a decrease in the number of babies being born with Down syndrome since the introduction of prenatal testing. With new prenatal testing options ...
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View Post: Non-invasive Down syndrome tests seem to have been enhanced by ...
6 hours ago by newsstaff  
Using our data generated in the most comprehensive study performed to date (the FaSTER trial), we demonstrated that the addition of a genetic sonogram to all modes of screening in pregnancy allows for optimal noninvasive prenatal ...
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View Post: Prenatal Testing: Identifying the Baby's Father
26 Nov 2009 by admin  
As a responsible parent, the only choice I had to this situation was to undergo a prenatal testing. Though we were pretty positive that he was its father, but we needed to convince him about it. It was one way to reassure that he has ...
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View Post: How should we deal with the arrival of very common prenatal ...
17 Nov 2009 by ELSI Contributor  
Each year, about 60000 pregnant women undergo prenatal genetic testing in the United States, out of more than 4.2 million live births. Within five years, new testing methods, made possible by the rise of cheap forms of genomic analysis, ...
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View Post: Prenatal Testing Helps Women
24 Nov 2009 by admin  
I never knew that paternity tests can also be done to unborn children. This procedure is called prenatal testing. I know how vital it is for a child to grow up with the guidance of his or her father. Moreover, women would really want to ...
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View Post: Prenatal Testing: a Christian Response « guppy parent
16 Nov 2009 by signonthewindow  
Every Western woman who is pregnant is going to be asked about prenatal testing. While genetic testing can be done to help a family prepare for a disabled child, the most frequent outcome is the termination of the pregnancy. ...
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View Post: The GEEE! in Genome – Vancouver » Blog Archive » Ask Gene-ous ...
4 Nov 2009 by lee  
Check out these predictive testing articles on Genome BC's Education website: Screening Embryos for Genetic Disease and Prenatal Testing; A Case Study– for more information. And don't forget to take a look at these glossary terms: ...
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View Post: Not All Genetic Tests are Prenatal : Blisstree - Family, Health ...
16 May 2006 by Hsien Hsien Lei, PhD  
With recent news of the UK approving more uses of pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) to identify embryos carrying the BRCA and HNPCC genes, prenatal genetic testing must also be on everyone's minds. Perhaps now is a good time for ...
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View Post: Down Syndrome in Real Life: Loaded question—Prenatal testing
4 Nov 2009 by RK  
In an "ideal" situation, I'd love to see much less prenatal testing, because I do believe that the majority, by far, react to the information they are given based on that initial fear and emotion, and in doing so give up a child that ...
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