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Genetic testing and screening

"genetic test can often... shorten the diagnostic pathway considerably. These tests are of real clinical value"

Dr. Jonathan J. Waters
Chair of Genetics & Clinical Embryology
The Royal College of Pathologists

"We actually look at
the chromosomes down the microscope; we can
see these little
packages of genetic materials and in these chromosomes is all* the information that is
needed in genetics to describe all thats
needed to function and work properly"

Ms Kim Smith
Cytogenetics Laboratory, Oxford Radcliff Hospitals

*excluding mitochondrial DNA

This section contains information on genetic testing in the UK and on antenatal and newborn screening and testing.

Information on genetic testing in the UK can be found on the UK Genetic Testing Network website.

'Screening in antenatal and newborn care', part of the 'Screening Choices' package, contains information and activities for healthcare professionals offering antenatal and newborn care in the UK. There is a fact sheet at the end of the unit on the UK antenatal and newborn screening programme.

 

 

Last updated: 13 October 2011

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