Routes to expanded carrier screening in the UK: the perspectives of professional stakeholders

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<title>Abstract</title> <p>Expanded carrier screening (ECS) is a genetic test, increasingly used before conception, to assess prospective parents’ risk of transmitting autosomal recessive and X-linked pathogenic genetic variants to future children.This paper is the first to describe the distinct coexisting routes to ECS in the UK, and to consider key professional stakeholders’ perspectives on the usefulness, adva...

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• BRCA gene mutations in cancer
• Cystic Fibrosis Research Advances
• Ethics and Legal Issues in Pediatric Healthcare
• Fetal and Pediatric Neurological Disorders
• Genetic Syndromes and Imprinting
• Nematode management and characterization studies
• Prenatal Screening and Diagnostics
• Reproductive Health and Technologies

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ebac7293-31fe-58d8-9eff-d2da6b800ae0

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10.21203/rs.3.rs-7273962/v1