If you or your partner has a mutation for an autosomal dominant condition, like Huntington disease or Marfan syndrome, you may want to consider preimplantation genetic testing (PGT) for single gene disorders. It can be difficult to know how to talk to your partner...
Parents who first learn that they are carriers for a genetic disease because they have a child affected by an autosomal recessive or X-linked recessive condition often fear passing their condition on to another child. Preimplantation genetic testing, or PGT, is an...
Mutations in the BRCA genes give women an elevated risk of developing breast and ovarian cancer — this is known as hereditary breast and ovarian cancer (HBOC) syndrome. According to the National Cancer Institute, BRCA1 and BRCA2 are tumor suppressor genes: in other...
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...
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...
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...
