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The gene machine : How genetic technologies are changing the way we have kids--and the kids we have

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bonnie Rochman
Format: Printed Book
Published: New York Scientific American / Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2017
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • How the Jews beat Tay-Sachs : screening for disease before pregnancy
  • Playing God : how preimplantation genetic diagnosis is rewriting family history
  • The other scarlet "A" : abortion's relationship to genetic testing
  • Silencing a gene : the future of Down syndrome
  • What do parents want to know? : grappling with variants of unknown significance
  • The right to an open future : navigating the return of results
  • How to hunt a zebra : ending the rare-disease diagnostic odyssey
  • The genie in the bottle : sequencing newborn babies.