Carrier screening for cystic fibrosis
- 1 December 1994
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Wiley in Prenatal Diagnosis
- Vol. 14 (13), 1243-1252
- https://doi.org/10.1002/pd.1970141309
Abstract
A number of different models of CF carrier screening have now been tested in pilot trials. Apart from opportunistic and cascade testing (which are strictly speaking not true forms of screening), the major programmes have been directed either to young adults in primary care or to pregnant women in antenatal clinics. Only in the latter form of screening has sufficient data been collected to allow conclusions to be reached on the optimum mode of delivery. It seems very probable that when CF carrier screening passes into routine service, it will be the antenatal couple model that is used.Keywords
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