Uses Of Genetic Testing

Genetic testing is now used for:

1. Carrier screening, or the identification of unaffected individuals who carry one copy of a gene for a disease that requires two copies for the disease to manifest;
2. Confirmational diagnosis of symptomatic individuals;
3. Determining sex;
4. Forensic/identity testing;
5. Newborn screening;
6. Prenatal diagnostic screening;
7. Presymptomatic testing for estimating the risk of developing adult-onset cancers;
8. Presymptomatic testing for predicting adult-onset disorders.