Technological developments in prenatal diagnostics
Next generation sequencing has led to advances for prenatal diagnosis in both invasive and non-invasive methods.
1) Give 3 examples of genetic conditions where these developments have changed the diagnostic pathway, using both non-invasive methods and prenatal whole exome/genome sequencing in your examples.
2) With reference to these 3 examples discuss :
- How new technologies have advanced the prenatal testing for the condition.
- What are the benefits and possible drawbacks of the new technologies .
- What are the potential ethical issues connected to these technologies and possible future developments.