In order to be an effective public health tool, the Newborn Screening panel (NBS) must only include technology that is affordable, reliable, and fast. Historically, molecular testing was so costly that it was not feasible to consider adding molecula . . .

Purpose: To investigate the status of policies and practices of in vitro fertilization (IVF) clinics regarding transfer of embryos with positive, abnormal, or mosaic results following preimplantation genetic testing for aneuploidy and for monogenic . . .

The UCSF Cancer Genetics and Prevention Program (CGPP) has implemented an alternative service delivery model to provide rapid genetic services to a growing number of patients with breast cancer. Dubbed the Genetic Testing Station (GTS), this Genetic C . . .

As direct-to-consumer genetic testing (DTC-GT) grows in popularity, the unanticipated “Not Parent Expected” (NPE) result has become more prevalent than ever before. An NPE result is the discovery that one parent, often the father, is not a biological . . .

This study aimed to examine the relationship among parents’ knowledge of child development, parent-child interactions, and child’s language ability in upper-middle class to high-income households. This study examined which specific parenting behavio . . .

Females affected with mitochondrial disease originating from the maternally inherited mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) have struggled in the past with the decision to have biological children who are at risk of developing symptoms of mitochondrial disease. M . . .

There is a need to increase knowledge concerning effective family and parent-school partnerships in regards to increasing student success academically and in life. The involvement of parents and family in school has been associated with student’s in . . .

The first purpose of the present study was to examine the effects of idealized media images from fashion magazines on women’s body satisfaction. The second purpose of the present study was to determine whether body satisfaction would increase after a . . .

Race and ethnicity can play an important role in assortative mating for some, and less so for others. In the current study, we examined perceptions of interethnic couples. Participants were 801 individuals recruited from Amazon Mechanical Turk who eac . . .

Rapid advancements in DNA sequencing technology have drastically increased the accessibility of genetic testing, generating vast amounts of genomic data that require clinical interpretation. The increasing demand for clinical genetics services has out . . .