{"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\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">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":""},"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":{"0":"post-200752","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-genetics","8":"tag-cystic-fibrosis","9":"tag-fragile-x","10":"tag-genetic-carrier-screening","11":"tag-genetic-disorder","12":"tag-genetic-disorders","13":"tag-genetics","14":"tag-health","15":"tag-mackenzies-mission","16":"tag-medical","17":"tag-norman-swan","18":"tag-podcast","19":"tag-preeya-alexander","20":"tag-program","21":"tag-science","22":"tag-screening","23":"tag-show","24":"tag-spinal-muscular-atrophy","25":"tag-testing","26":"tag-the-health-report","27":"tag-uk","28":"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}]}}