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Heterozygote Carrier Testing in High Schools Abroad: What are the Lessons for the U.S.?

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Lainie Friedman Ross
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To promote informed reproductive decisions, prenatal carrier testing is offered to women and couples to provide information about the risk of having a child with one or more genetic conditions. Tay Sachs Disease (TSD) was one of the first conditions for which prenatal carrier testing was developed. Today, many additional conditions can be tested for, depending on prospective parental interest, family history, or ethnicity. Interestingly, most individuals and couples do not request prenatal carrier information prior to conception, and carrier testing early in gestation allows only a narrow set of reproductive options. Programs have been designed to increase preconception testing, with variable success. One of the more successful attempts to increase preconception carrier testing uptake internationally has been to offer it to adolescents in high schools.

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Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics , Volume 34 , Issue 4 , Winter 2006 , pp. 753 - 764
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