Yuval Yaron1,2,*, and Rachel Michaelson-Cohen3,4 1Prenatal Genetic Diagnosis Unit, Genetic Institute, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel 2Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel 3Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel 4Medical Genetics Institute, Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Hebrew University of...

with significant improve in health-care and treatment of infectious diseases, genetic disorders have created a new era of notification. changes in social attitude towards family life and tendency of parents for limited number of children, sense of responsibility of parents for mental and physical healthiness of children along with their education, needed a new strategy. since most genetic disor...

objective: in this study, the possibility of prenatal diagnosis of down syndrome with real-time pcr method was evaluated. in this context, optimization of a suitable method for purification of high quality dna from amniotic fluid samples was also considered. materials and methods: pregnant women who had the high risk of having babies with down syndrome were selected according to the biochemica...

Prenatal screening programmes have been critiqued for their routine implementation according to clinical rationale without public debate. A new approach, non-invasive prenatal diagnosis (NIPD), promises diagnosis of fetal genetic disorders from a sample of maternal blood without the miscarriage risk of current invasive prenatal tests (e.g. amniocentesis). Little research has investigated the at...