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Ask Our Staff: Genetic Testing

January 16, 2018

Certified genetic counselor Peggy Kerper, MS, CGC at Fort Sanders Perinatal Center discusses how prenatal genetic testing gives information about changes, or abnormalities, in the chromosomes that make up your and your baby’s DNA and the risk for a birth defect.

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