3500 Genetic Disorders can be Known Since the Content

3500 Genetic Disorders can be Known Since the Content

Scientists today can find genetic abnormalities in unborn babies. In fact, researchers claim to be able to detect the 3500 range of genetic disorders. This invention is feared to lead to many parents who want to abort their babies if they know their children have the disorder before birth.
To check the current genetic disorders, need to insert the tool into the uterus to take fluid from the sac of the fetus or placenta. With great risk, this method only allows the doctor to examine a small number of genetic disorders such as Down syndrome and cystic fibrosis. In many cases, a new baby is checked if the risk inherited disorder of the parents.

But scientists say that the newly developed test, the deviation due to genetic errors can be detected much more. But researchers are also concerned if the examination results and then used as the basis for an abortion.
As reported in the journal Science Translational Medicine, the researchers were able to predict the genetic code of fetal blood sampling by his mother who was 18 weeks pregnant. In addition, the researchers also took saliva samples father.
From maternal blood and saliva of this father, the researchers will map the genetic puzzle the baby. The researchers were able to reconstruct the entire ensure the genetic code of an unborn baby and see what comes of genetic mutations.
"These findings open the possibility we will be able to scan the entire gene in the fetus for more than 3,000 single-gene disorders through the test without any surgical procedure," said researcher Dr. Jay Shendure as reported by the Telegraph, Monday (06/11/2012).
In most cases, abnormalities or genetic defects caused by mutations in genes that occur naturally. By examining the baby's genetic code before the actual birth and compare DNA taken after the birth, a team from the University of Washington in Seattle were able to identify 39 of the 44 gene mutations in infants.
Natural mutations or de novo mutations is estimated to play a role in a number of complex disorders like autism and schizophrenia. The team also tested this method on a woman when her pregnancy was 18 weeks and this method is still accurate.
Later, with the development of a test that is more subtle and less expensive, prenatal genetic testing could include a more comprehensive results than those available today.
Because it can test thousands of genetic disorders, the researchers say this new test could give a lot of information about infant health conditions in the future. However, on the one hand, this test also opens the possibility of more and more parents who want to abort the fetus after discovery of defects.