While the precise causes of autism remain an area of ongoing research, evidence suggests that both genetic and environmental ...

The key to understanding the genetic risk of neuropsychiatric disorders is in ... This type of modification is important to study because it is essential for fetal development, environmental ...

Researchers from Mass General Brigham, Harvard Medical School and Duke University School of Medicine have identified nearly 300 genetic disorders that can be treated before or immediately after a baby ...

Prenatal testing can provide parents with information about their child’s genetic identity ... that is performed earlier in the course of development, between 10 and 12 weeks of pregnancy.

When you're pregnant, prenatal tests give you information about your and your baby's health. These tests help spot any problems that could affect them, such as birth defects or genetic diseases.

These findings suggest that genetic risk may already manifest during the prenatal stage ... This mechanism, essential for development, environmental adaptation, and disease predisposition ...

With every new advance in prenatal genetic screening, the ability to prevent suffering has also sparked difficult questions about what should count as “a disease” versus “a difference ...

In this way, genetic risk factors which are shared across different phenotypes, provide information about processes central to women's health, such as reproductive tract development ...

First, prenatal (cyto)genetic diagnosis will be achieved much earlier in pregnancy. From a medical perspective this is a positive development as termination-related risks for the mother are ...