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Screening

Synonym(s)

Testing designed to identify individuals in a given population who are at higher risk of having or developing a particular disorder, or carrying a gene for a particular disorder: Definition from: GeneTests from the University of Washington and the National Center for Biotechnology Information
Testing groups of individuals to identify defective genes capable of causing hereditary conditions.: Definition from: Office of Rare Diseases at the National Institutes of Health
Genetic screening is the process of testing a population for a genetic disease in order to identify a subgroup of people that either have the disease or the potential to pass it on to their offspring.: Definition from: Talking Glossary of Genetic Terms from the National Human Genome Research Institute


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