Current controversies in prenatal diagnosis 4: pre-conception expanded carrier screening should replace all current prenatal screening for specific single gene disorders

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What's already known about this topic? In the United States there is increasing availability of pan-ethnic carrier screening covering mutations in a large number of genes (“expanded screening”). A large-scale study on the use of expanded carrier screening has been published by a commercial laboratory offering this test. The American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics has issued a position statement on...

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