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Practices of Sickle Cell Disease Genetic Screening and Testing in the Prenatal Population

2021-10-07

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<h4>Background: </h4> Genetic screening and testing has only recently become an accessible assessment for genetic risk. Unfortunately, these technologies have been underutilized in minority populations despite their usefulness for predicting diseases like sickle cell disease (SCD), often found in African American and Black and Hispanic populations. We surveyed prenatal patients to understand current choices, belie...

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Literature Corpus work: ad950e68-e0a4-51b5-a949-39cc37fa1641
DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-929284/v1

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