Prenatal Genetics FAQs

What is Prenatal Genetic Counseling?

Prenatal Genetic Counseling helps individuals at risk for a disorder understand the risks and consequences of a condition, and the chances that they or their children will develop or transmit the condition, and ways in which the condition can be prevented, avoided or ameliorated.

What’s the value of Cord Blood Banking?

Preserving cord blood stems cells may be considered a form of life insurance for your child. This particularly applies to many families with a history of malignancies like leukemia, lymphoma, myeloma, neuroblastoma or non-malignant, often genetic diseases like Aplastic Anemias, Fanconi's anemia, Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome, or Thalassemia.