WELLINGTON, Sept. 5 (Xinhua) -- Having a baby may never be the same again as increasingly sophisticated genetic testing is likely to raise thorny ethical issues, according to a New Zealand report released on Tuesday. "Pregnant women now face a bewildering world of genetic testing," said Jeann...
Decision-making about prenatal genetic testing among pregnant Korean-American womenMyunghee Jun PhD, RN Assistant Professor aVipavee Thongpriwan PhD, RN Clinical Assistant Professor bJeeyae Choi PhD, RN AssociateProfessor cKyung Sook Choi PhD, RN Professor Emerita d...
Older pregnant women tended to receive GC and GT more often than younger women (P < 0.001). The most common reason for receiving GC was advanced maternal age (79.7%). The most common prenatal GT was noninvasive prenatal testing (NIPT) (50%), followed by the combined test (29.0%) and ...
000 pregnant women in China, the largest-scale genetic analysis of Chinese people to date, revealing associations between genes and birth outcomes, including the birth of twins and a woman's age at first pregnancy.
A good number of pregnant women (53.1%) did not know that there are some laboratory tests that could be used to diagnose genetic diseases (Table 2). Attitudes and knowledge on genetic testing among Jordanians, conducted by Khdair et al., 2021, found that 65.4% of the participants had good...
If you're thinking about getting pregnant, here's what preconception genetic testing can tell you about your risk of passing on conditions to your kid.
A NEW genetic testing service for pregnant women which cuts the reporting time from two weeks to just over a day has proved a resounding success, doctors say. The test, which detects 80pc of foetal abnormalities, is currently only available on the NHS at one centre in London. Doctors ru...
The study was done withpregnant womencarrying a baby with no visible abnormality on ultrasound, but who were havinggenetic testing(chromosome microarray analysis) following a prenatal diagnosis procedure, either chorionic villus sampling or amniocentesis, done for other reasons. ...
Genetic testing improves the diagnoses of abnormalities in developing babies that are picked up during ultrasound scans, scientists report today (31 January) in The Lancet. Scientists from the Wellcome Sanger Institute, University of Cambridge, Universit
at the Central Laboratory of Birth Defects Prevention and Control in Ningbo Women & Children’s Hospital. The lab has signed agreements with all county/district-level maternity and childcare hospitals in Ningbo, enabling genetic disease carrier screening to be accessible for all pregnant women. ...