The Chosen One: Prenatal Genetic Testing

Everyone wants to know more about the technological and medical progress that the United States created in the last century in the last century. Thanks to the genetic testing world, families and individuals can now see their health status over the next few years. Genetic testing can be done for everyone, but it takes a lot of time and effort to complete. Depending on your family, it takes a long time to conduct prenatal genetic testing for new families.

For prenatal genetic testing or preimplantation genetic diagnosis, there is an ethical problem to confirm that the child is not born with a specific disease. For example, prenatal testing raises the issue of selective pregnancy abortion, which is considered to be unacceptable to some people. Because it is a dominant disease, there are difficulties in situations where parents do not want to know their diagnosis. This will require that part of the process be kept confidential to the parents. After experiencing HD in his wife's family in 1968, Dr. Milton Wechsler was urged to set up the Hereditary Disease Foundation (HDF) to coordinate treatment of hereditary diseases through coordination and support. The foundation and Wessler's daughter, Nancy Wexler, is an important part of the discovery of the research team of the Venezuelan HD gene.

Mauritius does not offer prenatal tests such as triple / quad (or triple / quad) tests or prenatal genetic tests. When asked to the doctor whether these tests were provided as part of prenatal care, one of them was their preference, the majority (66.7%) chose the 3/4 test and the prenatal gene Only 43.3% chose the inspection. Prenatal genetic testing is a diagnostic test that gives very accurate results, but low preferences can be explained by a number of disadvantages associated with them. According to the survey, most clinicians (76.7%) agreed to increase the risk of miscarriage in prenatal genetic testing The second disadvantage is that 60% find all symptoms of the fetus in this test It is to agree that it is impossible. Third, 50% of clinicians feel that they are more expensive than the triple / quad test