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Do people from the Jewish community prefer ancestry-based or pan-ethnic expanded carrier screening?
European journal of human genetics : EJHG - 1 Feb 2016
Holtkamp Kim C A, van Maarle Merel C, Schouten Maria J E, Dondorp Wybo J, Lakeman Phillis, Henneman Lidewij
Abstract excerpt
Ancestry-based carrier screening in the Ashkenazi Jewish population entails screening for specific autosomal recessive founder mutations, which are rarer among the general population. As it is now technically feasible to screen for many more diseases, the question arises whether this population p...
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