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Prospective parents reassured by testing
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Remember that many genetic disorders are recessive, so both you and your partner would have to test positive for your baby to be at risk.
Some ethnicities are prone to certain genetic disorders.
Black Americans most often are screened for sickle-cell anemia, a blood disease that causes blood cells to have trouble traveling through the blood vessels, causing pain and anemia.
Mediterranean, African and Far East Asian ethnicities may be screened for thalassemia, a group of genetic blood disorders related to the red blood cells' ability to carry oxygen.
Jewish men and women of European descent and French Canadian, Irish American and Louisiana Cajun individuals are often tested for Tay-Sachs disease, a fatal disease that affects the nerve cells of the brain.
Women with previous obstetrical difficulties including multiple miscarriages, a child with a birth defect or a stillbirth should be tested for genetic disorders.
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