As soon as the genetic counselor began speaking, mom-to-be Georgina Trousas sensed the news was not what they had hoped for.

Sickle cell disease is not rare and affects many children in India. This genetic condition is inherited when both parents ...

Myriad Genetics, Inc. announced it will present significant research on early prenatal testing at the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine Conference. The study, awarded the Dru Carlson Memorial Award, ...

A new study indicates that noninvasive prenatal screening (NIPS) performed using a low-cost form of whole genome sequencing can detect the risk in pregnant mothers of transmitting cytomegalovirus (CMV ...

Researchers provide a comprehensive overview of prenatal screening for fetal aneuploidies, including traditional serum screening, ultrasound imaging, and cell-free DNA testing. A 37-year-old pregnant ...

The NIPT market's growth opportunities lie in expanding its clinical applications, leveraging advanced sequencing technologies, and increasing adoption for low-risk pregnancies. Rising maternal age, ...

A novel study has analyzed the cost-effectiveness of different Down syndrome (DS) screening strategies. The result confirms that noninvasive prenatal testing (NIPT) outperforms second-trimester serum ...

Prenatal genetic testing determines if an offspring is at risk of genetic or hereditary conditions. This can inform the parents of decisions such as keeping the child or not or adjusting to help them ...

To address these limitations, we developed noninvasive prenatal screening using deep trio-exome sequencing; this comprehensive noninvasive method has high sensitivity for detecting fetal ...

Prenatal genetic tests can detect sex chromosome aberrations, but what happens after—for families and children—is anything but clear. When Ollie’s mother, Katie, was nine weeks pregnant, her ...