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News of Interest

Population-based Carrier Screening for Single Gene Disorders: Lessons Learned and New Opportunities
March 2008

The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) and the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) jointly sponsored a workshop in February 2008 to examine carrier screening policy featuring SMA as an exemplar disease. This workshop represents the first federally sponsored formal review of carrier screening policy in 11 years. Please click here to view the introduction, summary of presentations, reports from small groups and concluding remarks from this presentation.
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