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‘Emotional cost’: Caution urged on growing use of prenatal genetic tests – Brisbane Times
A group of doctors has sounded a warning over increasingly elaborate genetic tests being offered to expectant mothers.
The articles lead author, Dr Joseph Thomas, a senior specialist in maternal-fetal medicine at Mater Health Services in Brisbane, said the extended panels offered very low accuracy rates for many conditions.
For example, theres a particularly awful condition called DiGeorge syndrome that has a very poor predictive value.
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