The Kaiser Permanente Center in Portland has been awarded an NIH grant to sequence the genomes of couples before they have children.
“Most of the time, couples don’t find out that they carry these
mutations until after the mother is already pregnant, or until after the
child is born,” said Katrina Goddard, a genetic epidemiologist, principal investigator on the project and researcher with Kaiser’s Center for Health Research "
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