MANY pregnant women in the US have had risky and unnecessary fetal tests following genetic screening of themselves and their partners. And some may have terminated healthy pregnancies after muddles or irregularities in genetic tests on their fetuses.
This is the warning being issued by medical geneticists who have assessed the outcomes of some of the tens of thousands of DNA tests carried out every month in the US as part of the world’s largest screening programme for cystic fibrosis (see “Cystic fibrosis: key facts”). Some of the companies carrying out the tests blame doctors for misinterpreting complex results…
