Prenatal and Postnatal Genetic Testing: Why, How, and When?

Prenatal diagnostic methods

Prenatal Diagnosis is the most reliable way of preventing genetic diseases that has been implicated in many countries and has prevented the birth of newborns with different hereditary, congenital and genetic diseases during the past few years. Prenatal diagnosis is actually the use of various diagnostic methods to check the condition of the fetus during pregnancy, because postnatal genetic diso...

Why aren't identical twins linguistically identical? Genetic, prenatal and postnatal factors.

Results of twin studies clearly demonstrate that genetic factors play an important role in the rate of language acquisition and linguistic proficiency attained by normal and impaired children and adults [see Stromswold, K. (2001). The heritability of language: A review and meta-analysis of twin, adoption and linkage studies. Language, 77, 647-723.]. That said, twin-based heritability estimates ...

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Extract When a woman undergoes genetic testing of her fetus, the physiologic and emotional demands are great. Careful nursing assessment and support are vital. The main benefit of prenatal genetic diagnosis is that women be given the opportunity to coping with your pregnancy where fetal abnormalities has been diagnosed or achieve  to a complete relaxation with  the positive results obtained . E...

Why COVID-19 Laboratory Personnel Should Be Tested Before Attending the Laboratory: how even the most experienced personnel conta350minate clinical samples

Dear Editor in Chief  Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has resulted in a pandemic (1). Early diagnosis and testing of symptomatic individuals and asymptomatic carriers (2) remain essential since the latter group can transmit the virus (3,4). Current assays for SARS-CoV-2 detection are mostly based on quantitative real-time PCR (RT-qPCR)(5). However, cross-contaminat...

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