{"id":1153,"date":"2023-09-04T09:49:08","date_gmt":"2023-09-04T01:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hkuivf.hku.hk\/?page_id=1153"},"modified":"2025-07-24T10:19:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T02:19:18","slug":"genetic-testing-service","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/hkuivf.hku.hk\/en\/services\/genetic-testing-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Expanded carrier screening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To identify asymptomatic individuals who carry variants associated with various single-gene conditions, including<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>autosomal recessive conditions (e.g. Thalassemia, Non-syndromic Hearing Loss, Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia, Spinal Muscular Atrophy)<\/li>\n<li>X-linked recessive conditions (e.g. Fragile X Syndrome, Haemophilia, Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Two testing platform are available.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Uni-ECS<\/strong> evaluates 453 genes associated with autosomal recessive and X-linked disorders.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Uni-ECS Plus<\/strong> evaluates 708 genes which includes<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>453 genes in Uni-ECS panel<\/li>\n<li>extra 74 genes in ACMG secondary findings (v3.2) gene list<\/li>\n<li>an additional 181 genes in infertility panel<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Complete gene lists can be found by scanning the following QR codes.<\/p>\n<table style=\"text-align: center; min-width: 600px;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/hkuivf.hku.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Uni-ECS_452gene-panel_Eng-FraX.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Uni-ECS Gene Panel<\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/hkuivf.hku.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/UTF-8Uni-ECS_plus_Eng-FraX-acmg-infertility.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Uni-ECS Plus Gene Panel<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1276\" src=\"https:\/\/hkuivf.hku.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/qr-code_Uni-ECS_English.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" \/><\/td>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1275\" src=\"https:\/\/hkuivf.hku.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/qr-code_Uni-ECS-plus_English.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To identify asymptomatic individuals who carry variants associated with various single-gene conditions, including autosomal recessive conditions (e.g. Thalassemia, Non-syndromic Hearing Loss, Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia, Spinal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":151,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1153","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hkuivf.hku.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hkuivf.hku.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hkuivf.hku.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hkuivf.hku.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hkuivf.hku.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1153"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/hkuivf.hku.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1288,"href":"https:\/\/hkuivf.hku.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1153\/revisions\/1288"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hkuivf.hku.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hkuivf.hku.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}