A Systematic Analysis of Online Marketing Materials Used by Providers of Expanded Carrier Screening
- Resource Type
- Academic Journal
- Authors
- Chokoshvili, Davit; Borry, Pascal; Vears, Danya F.
- Source
- Obstetrical & Gynecological Survey. Feb 01, 2019 74(2):59-61
- Subject
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 0029-7828
(Abstracted from Genet Med 2018;20:976–984)Carrier screening aims to identify prospective parents at risk of having a child with a monogenic disorder. Carrier screening is primarily performed for recessive genetic disorders, for which carriers are said to be individuals who have (or carry) 1 mutated copy of the gene associated with a recessive disorder and 1 normal copy.