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  • At-home testing kits available for Jewish genetic screening

    Diana Burmistrovich, JNS.org|Nov 15, 2013

    One in four Jews is a carrier of one or more of the 19 known preventable Jewish genetic diseases, according to the Center for Jewish Genetics. Although Sephardic Jews and non-Jews can carry these diseases, they appear twice as often for Ashkenazi Jews as they do for the rest of the population. When both spouses are carriers for a particular genetic disease, the couple has a 25 percent chance of passing the disease on to their children. Launched in September through the Emory University School... Full story

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