Journal article

Offering pregnant women different levels of genetic information from prenatal chromosome microarray: A prospective study

JL Halliday, C Muller, T Charles, F Norris, J Kennedy, S Lewis, B Meiser, S Donath, Z Stark, G McGillivray, M Menezes, SK Smith, D Forster, S Walker, M Pertile, DJ Amor

European Journal of Human Genetics | SPRINGERNATURE | Published : 2018

Abstract

This study aimed to examine the choice pregnant women make about the amount of fetal genetic information they want from chromosome microarray. Women having invasive prenatal testing in the absence of fetal structural abnormality were recruited in Victoria, Australia. A decision aid for women described 'targeted' analysis as reporting only copy number variants implicated in a highly penetrant and well-described phenotype and 'extended' as additionally reporting variants of uncertain or unknown significance. Participant's choice and demographics were collected by survey before chorionic villus sampling or amniocentesis; psychological data were also collected then and again about 10 days after ..

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Grants

Awarded by National Health and Medical Research Council


Funding Acknowledgements

Jane Halliday and Bettina Meiser were supported through National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Senior Fellowships, Level B, numbers 1021252 and 1078523 respectively. The research project was also funded by NHMRC (grant number 1059993). This work was made possible through the Victorian State Government Operational Infrastructure Support and Australian Government NHMRC IRIISS.