Best practices: antenatal screening for common genetic conditions other than aneuploidy

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PURPOSE OF REVIEW: Carrier screening aims to identify asymptomatic heterozygotes of heritable disorders and has a vital, ever-changing role in its application to the prenatal detection of disease. An explosion of new technologies for the identification of single-gene disorders challenges our ability to evaluate each individual test prior to its introduction into the private and public sectors. RECENT FINDINGS:...

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