carrier screening

car·ri·er screen·ing

indiscriminate examination of members of a population to detect heterozygotes for serious disorders and counsel about the risks of marriages with other carriers, and by prenatal diagnosis where a married couple are both carriers; often sacrifices specificity to sensitivity and is most effectively applied to populations known to be at high risk.

car·ri·er screen·ing

(kar'ē-ĕr skrēn'ing)

Indiscriminate examination of members of a population to detect heterozygotes for serious disorders and provide subsequent counsel about the risks of marriages to other carriers, and by prenatal diagnosis when both spouses in a married couple are both carriers.

carrier screening

, carrier identification

Performing genetic tests on a person to see if he or she may carry a recessive trait that might be expressed after mating with another carrier of the trait. It is used in high-risk families or populations to screen for illnesses such as cystic fibrosis, Gaucher's disease, and Tay-Sachs disease.

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Keywords: Thalassaemia, Awareness, Attitude, Carrier screening, Genetic disease, Prevention.

Frequency of carrier screening and preventive orientation among first degree relatives of Thalassaemia patients

Finally, given the rapidly changing technology, new screening recommendations, and the complexity of counseling, carrier screening was chosen as a genetic hot topic for this year.

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The acquisition of CombiMatrix complements Invitae's recent acquisition of another reproductive genetics company, Good Start Genetics, to establish a menu with the breadth and depth needed to provide comprehensive support for women, their partners and clinicians to use genetic information when considering their reproductive health options, from carrier screening to preimplantation genetic screening and diagnosis to newborn diagnostics.

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Invitae's reproductive genetics products, which include Good Start Genetics' GeneVu, EmbryVu and VeriYou, provide preimplantation genetic screening and carrier screening to offer comprehensive and flexible testing options.

Invitae Data Shows Novel Genetic Screening Technology Identifies Chromosomal Abnormalities Potentially Missed on Other Platforms

Structure of carrier screening programmes varies among different populations in several aspects, including whether the programmes are mandatory or voluntary, at which stage of carrier screening the education and counseling was provided; pre-marital, pre-pregnancy or antenatal, and whether screening test is offered pre-marital, pre-pregnancy or antenatally.

Ethical issues in managing Lysosomal storage disorders in children in low and middle income countries

MedGenome's diagnostics tests include many "firsts" for genetic diagnostics in India, including first liquid biopsy "OncoTrack" for monitoring cancer treatment, non-invasive prenatal screening test (NIPT) for pregnant women, carrier screening test for couples planning on a baby, and whole exome sequencing test for identifying mutations in rare diseases.

MedGenome raises USD 30 mn funding for accelerating development of diagnostics tests

Recently, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists recommended that carrier screening (https://www.

Should You Pick A Partner Based On Their Genetic Make-Up?

to establish a standard carrier screening process that is consistently offered to all patients before pregnancy.

ACOG stresses widespread prepregnancy carrier screening

This question underpins and connects the author's concern with Eastern European Jewish immigration to the US and UK that spanned the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as well as the Jewish community's own implementation, since the 1970s, of mass carrier screening to successfully eradicate Tay-Sachs.

TESTING FATE: TAY-SACHS AND THE RIGHT TO BE RESPONSIBLE

The Jewish community's response to Tay-Sachs may be a public health success story, and yet it has led to little standardization in carrier screening, even among Jews.

A Rabbi Pushes for Genetic Testing Beyond Tay-Sachs Disease

Here we propose a multiplexed method for determining the presence and size of abnormal microsatellite expansions in the context of FXS and related conditions, potentially enabling carrier screening at scales comparable to those enabled by NGS or affordable testing of every newborn for the CGG repeat expansion.

Group Testing Approach for Trinucleotide Repeat Expansion Disorder Screening

In addition to screening for chromosome abnormalities, pregnant couples are typically offered carrier screening for genetic conditions such as cystic fibrosis (CF).