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Stopping Inheritable Genetic Diseases with Ancestry.com
Can Ancestry.com determine your risk for inheritable genetic diseases?
The team at Dallas IVF heard someone ask this intriguing question, and we started wondering if Ancestry.com could do more than just tell you the names of your ancestors. Maybe, the website could reveal details about your ethnic background and whether your children could be at-risk for certain inheritable genetic diseases.
Before you sign up for Ancestry.com right now, let’s see the physicians at our Dallas fertility center think. …show more content…
Additionally, while most disorders can be found in any ethnic group, they are more common certain ethnics backgrounds.
• For example, Tay-Sachs Disease is more common among people of Jewish descent, while sickle cell anemia is often found in people of African American descent.
Genetic screening is the best way to protect your future children
Many people don’t realize that they could pass inheritable genetic diseases to their children. For this reason, the reproductive endocrinologists at our Dallas fertility center recommend preconception genetic testing to all patients before they get pregnant. Our physicians also recommend preimplantation genetic screening (PGS) as part of an IVF