Traditional testing, though valuable, is often reactive and identifies quality issues only after they have occurred. This can lead to project delays and financial and reputational losses. In fact, ...

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is a common autosomal dominant disease, associated with heart failure and arrhythmias predisposing to sudden cardiac death. After the detection of the causal mutation in ...

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The inherited prion diseases (IPD) are a group of untreatable neurodegenerative diseases that segregate as autosomal dominant traits. Mutations in the prion protein gene (PRNP) were first found to be ...

Dublin, Jan. 23, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "Predictive Genetic Testing and Consumer Genomics Market by Test, Application, by End-User, and By Region" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com ...

If your genetic makeup put you at greater risk of disease, would you want to know? I've dedicated my professional life to genetics research, investigating a wide range of conditions. but, this year, ...

Predictive genetic testing may be able to identify children's risk for developing common, treatable, and possibly preventable disorders. Despite this, critics of predictive genetic testing say test ...

Patients who, perhaps unbeknownst to their health care providers, are in need of genetic testing for rare undiagnosed diseases can be identified en masse based on routine information in electronic ...

Peter Salgo, MD, and John L. Fox, MD, MHA, discuss the definition of predictive value of diagnostic testing in cancer and describe the value of the genomic assays that are currently available in ...

Knowledge is power, but that power might not always be good. Before predictive genetic testing is done for Huntington’s disease (HD), a host of ethical and social questions should be considered.