But it is also increasing the ranks of expectant parents who are left
in limbo, their joy turning to dread, because their offspring has a DNA
variant that is not yet understood.
"I started getting really panicky that the child I was carrying was
going to be severely autistic with seizures and schizophrenia," said one
such parent, interviewed for a University of Pennsylvania study of
reactions to abnormal results. "I would look online and I met with a
geneticist and talked to an autism specialist. And frankly, nobody could
really tell me" how the child would be affected.
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