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Should you get genetic testing in pregnancy?
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All pregnant women : in the U.S. are offered screens for Down Syndrome & other syndromes with abnormal #'s of chromosomes, the risk for which ^es with ^ed maternal age at term. Genetic counseling & definitive chromosome analysis or microarray are offered to parents with a family history of genetic disorders & those who carry certain traits, have a fetus with anomalies or a high calculated risk on genetic screens.
Answered 11/9/2015
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