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Department of
Genetics

Yale University
School of Medicine
333 Cedar Street
New Haven, CT
06510 USA

Clinical Genetics at Yale

Clinical genetics services at Yale

Yale Clinical Genetics is committed to providing excellent clinical care for adults and children in a setting that values compassion, collaboration, and respect for individuals and families.

Six clinical genetics physicians certified by the American Board of Medical Genetics provide state of the art genetic services including diagnosis, evaluation, counseling, and management for genetic and congenital conditions. The clinical team includes genetic counselors and a genetic nutritionist.

Cancer genetic counseling services include the provision of information on inherited cancers, discussion, coordination and interpretation of genetic testing, and determination of the likelihood that cancers in a family are hereditary.

Prenatal diagnostic services include chorionic villus sampling, amniocentesis, ultrasound visualization of the unborn fetus, cytogenetic, biochemical and molecular genetic analysis, and fetal blood testing.

Genetics laboratory services at Yale

Cytogenetic laboratory: Analysis of lymphocytes, fetal cells, bone marrow, and solid tissue including tumors

Biochemical Disease Detection Laboratory: Analysis for amino acids, organic acids, carbohydrates, acylcarnitines, acylglycines, and other analytes related to inborn errors of metabolism

Molecular genetics laboratory: Analysis of tissue and cells using DNA-based methods and linkage markers.

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