False-positive results, could lead to healthcare professionals unintentionally harming the newborn by offering unneeded treatment opportunities. The WGS are also so dense with information that even some health professionals have difficulty understanding to which poses the risk of them providing new parents with the wrong information (Knoppers et al., 2014). Instead of helping the family this could just increase stress level in a family. Lastly, there is little information that I have found to indicate if this type of screening is affordable to the average family. It’s costlier due to the clinical interpretation that follow the retrieval of the sample from the newborn (Backmann, 2015). As a result, my research seems to suggest that it is currently done as a private screening and paid for by the
False-positive results, could lead to healthcare professionals unintentionally harming the newborn by offering unneeded treatment opportunities. The WGS are also so dense with information that even some health professionals have difficulty understanding to which poses the risk of them providing new parents with the wrong information (Knoppers et al., 2014). Instead of helping the family this could just increase stress level in a family. Lastly, there is little information that I have found to indicate if this type of screening is affordable to the average family. It’s costlier due to the clinical interpretation that follow the retrieval of the sample from the newborn (Backmann, 2015). As a result, my research seems to suggest that it is currently done as a private screening and paid for by the