Genomic sequencing technology allows for identification of reproductive couples with an increased chance, as compared with that in the general population, of having a child with an autosomal recessive ...

Credit: Getty Images Genetic carrier screening is conducted to determine if an asymptomatic person is a carrier for a potentially inheritable pathogenic gene. High costs are not limited to these ...

Couples who were found to be genetic carriers for autosomal recessive or X-linked genetic conditions often opted to change their reproductive strategy, a large Australian population-based study found.

Just because you can doesn’t mean you should. This week I’ve been thinking about babies. Healthy ones. Perfect ones. As you may have read last week, my colleague Antonio Regalado came face to face ...

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China recently approved its first gene therapy for the rare genetic disorder hemophilia B, drawing renewed attention to this often-overlooked condition. Hemophilia is a rare but serious inherited ...

Researchers have developed an innovative new nanopore sequencing assay to identify carriers of fragile X syndrome (FXS), the leading cause of monogenic autism spectrum disorder and inherited ...

BGI Genomics and Partner demonstrated the high efficiency of High-Throughput Sequencing (HTS) in preventing severe thalassemia birth defects. The findings were published in the Journal of Genetics and ...