Lying in a hospital bed with abdominal pain, chest pain and an elevated heart rate at age 23, little did Stefanie Staggs know that this moment was the beginning of a journey toward her life-changing discovery of PGT for ADPKD. She nor her mother or sister had...
Whether you travel the world, focus on your career, or meet your soulmate at age 38, there are many reasons one may postpone having children. As priorities shift and reproductive technologies improve, the average age of parenthood is steadily increasing for both men...
In recent years, there has been a trend in patients receiving ADPKD diagnoses at an earlier age. This is possibly attributed to two factors: an increased use of family health history analysis and an increase in physician knowledge about disease symptoms. An earlier...
Leslie Evans, MS, CGCLeslie is a board-certified clinical genetic counselor and former Program Manager for the preimplantation genetic testing (PGT) program of the ORM Genomics team and former Project Manager for SharingHealthyGenes.com. She completed her Bachelor’s...
We know that many of our patients are looking for a tall, twinkly-eyed, handsome gentleman with an ivy-league education. Often the genetic profile (or lack thereof) is not high on the list of priorities to be reviewed. According to a recent webinar presented by...
You’ve just found out that you and/or your partner are the carrier of a genetic disorder, meaning that you carry the gene for a genetic condition that you risk passing on to your future child. You may feel confused, overwhelmed and anxious. There is a lot of...
So, here you are, ready to have a baby. You and your partner have been trying for over a year, and when you finally see a fertility specialist, you’re inundated with brochures, websites and blogs about the complexity of the human reproductive system. You start...
Nearly 40 percent of American men and women will be diagnosed with cancer in their lifetimes, and approximately five to 10 percent of these cancers are the result of inherited gene mutations, according to the National Cancer Institute. So, is cancer a genetic disease?...
Parents-to-be may consider using preimplantation genetic testing (PGT) to screen embryos for inherited genetic diseases, but PGT for single gene disorders has its limitations and cannot detect every possible condition. Here, we explore the future of PGT, and how...
Preimplantation genetic testing (PGT) has existed for more than 25 years and is a process that allows parents to screen embryos for potential serious genetic conditions. As our understanding of inherited diseases continues to grow, so do possible PGT applications....
