{"id":200752,"date":"2025-06-20T20:19:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T20:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/200752\/"},"modified":"2025-06-20T20:19:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T20:19:10","slug":"screening-for-genetic-mutations-in-couples-before-they-conceive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/200752\/","title":{"rendered":"Screening for genetic mutations in couples before they conceive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Couples can unknowingly be carriers for genetic conditions, even though there are tests available to reveal recessive traits before conceiving.<\/p>\n<p>Medicare covers genetic carrier screening for cystic fibrosis (CF), spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) and fragile X syndrome (FXS).<\/p>\n<p>However advocates are calling for subsidies to cover more conditions, so parents can be well informed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Guest\/s<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"ContentAlignment_marginBottom__4H_6E ContentAlignment_overflowVisible__N2zKU List_unordered__yNZx8\" data-component=\"List\" role=\"list\">\n<li class=\"\" data-component=\"ListItem\">Rachael Casella, advocate and founder of Mackenzie&#8217;s Mission<\/li>\n<li class=\"\" data-component=\"ListItem\"><a class=\"Link_link__5eL5m ScreenReaderOnly_srLinkHint__OysWz Link_showVisited__C1Fea Link_showFocus__ALyv2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unsw.edu.au\/staff\/edwin-kirk\" data-component=\"Link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Professor Edwin Kirk<\/a>, genetic pathologist at NSW Health Pathology<br \/>\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>References<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Couples can unknowingly be carriers for genetic conditions, even though there are tests available to reveal recessive traits&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":200753,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3846],"tags":[24623,81091,81090,30287,8748,267,105,81092,4554,54011,3796,81089,19451,70,10114,17947,47335,8741,81088,16,15],"class_list":["post-200752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-genetics","tag-cystic-fibrosis","tag-fragile-x","tag-genetic-carrier-screening","tag-genetic-disorder","tag-genetic-disorders","tag-genetics","tag-health","tag-mackenzies-mission","tag-medical","tag-norman-swan","tag-podcast","tag-preeya-alexander","tag-program","tag-science","tag-screening","tag-show","tag-spinal-muscular-atrophy","tag-testing","tag-the-health-report","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114717549974044323","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}