EMQN best practice guidelines for molecular and haematology methods for carrier identification and prenatal diagnosis of the haemoglobinopathies

Traeger-Synodinos, Joanne, Harteveld, Cornelis L., Old, John M, Petrou, Mary, Galanello, Renzo, Giordano, Piero, Angastioniotis, Michael, De la Salle, Barbara, Henderson, Shirley and May, Alison 2015. EMQN best practice guidelines for molecular and haematology methods for carrier identification and prenatal diagnosis of the haemoglobinopathies. European Journal of Human Genetics 23 (4) , pp. 426-437. 10.1038/ejhg.2014.131

Preview

PDF - Published Version Available under License Creative Commons Attribution. Download (558kB) | Preview

Abstract

Haemoglobinopathies constitute the commonest recessive monogenic disorders worldwide, and the treatment of affected individuals presents a substantial global disease burden. Carrier identification and prenatal diagnosis represent valuable procedures that identify couples at risk for having affected children, so that they can be offered options to have healthy offspring. Molecular diagnosis facilitates prenatal diagnosis and definitive diagnosis of carriers and patients (especially ‘atypical’ cases who often have complex genotype interactions). However, the haemoglobin disorders are unique among all genetic diseases in that identification of carriers is preferable by haematological (biochemical) tests rather than DNA analysis. These Best Practice guidelines offer an overview of recommended strategies and methods for carrier identification and prenatal diagnosis of haemoglobinopathies, and emphasize the importance of appropriately applying and interpreting haematological tests in supporting the optimum application and evaluation of globin gene DNA analysis.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Medicine
Subjects:	R Medicine > R Medicine (General)
Additional Information:	Published online 23 July 2014.
Publisher:	Nature Publishing Group
ISSN:	1018-4813
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	30 March 2016
Date of Acceptance:	8 May 2014
Last Modified:	05 May 2023 00:39
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/84501

Citation Data

Cited 65 times in Scopus. View in Scopus. Powered By Scopus® Data

Actions (repository staff only)

Edit Item