Technological developments in prenatal diagnostics
Prompt:
Next generation sequencing has led to advances for prenatal diagnosis in both invasive and non-invasive methods. 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. With reference to these 3 examples please discuss
1) how new technologies have advanced the prenatal testing for the condition
2) what are the benefits and possible drawbacks of the new technologies and
3) what are the potential ethical issues connected to these technologies and possible future developments.
