From Gregor Mendel's 19th Century discovery of linking generational "factors," to current controversies over cloning and DNA engineering, the study of genetics has been one of the most significant scientific endeavors of the modern era. The breakthroughs of the last few years and the studies still in progress are supplying the keys to understanding the causes of many diseases that continue to plague mankind today.

If you have ever thought that a health problem "runs" in your family,
we can help.

Now part of the Department of Human Genetics, the Division of Medical Genetics, directed by Dr. David Ledbetter, Robert W. Woodruff Professor of Human Genetics at Emory University School of Medicine, is dedicated to both the study and practice of advanced, modern genetic health care. Our research and development and genetic medical staff are specialists in the detection of hereditary factors linked to many adult and pediatric diseases, as well as prenatal conditions and birth defects. And, we have helped to train hundreds of primary care physicians, nurses, technologists, and researchers in the practice of clinical genetics and technology.

The Department of Human Genetics, led by Dr. Stephen Warren, has millions of dollars of ongoing federally-funded research to develop new understandings of the mechanism and susceptibility of individuals with genetic diseases. With this understanding will come improved methods for patient management, counseling, gene therapy, and cures. Click here to read about how the Department of Human Genetics is poised to become one of the best in the nation.

The Division of Medical Genetics works in collaboration with the world-renowned Centers for Disease Control & Prevention on the Metropolitan Atlanta Birth Defects Monitoring Program, which provides data collection on all major structural birth defects. The Emory Genetics Laboratory has been providing superior genetic lab testing and clinical genetic services to physicians within the region for more than 30 years. Our extensive genetics testing panel includes biochemical genetics, molecular genetics and cytogenetics. The members of our team work with compassion and expertise, counseling patients and conferring with referring physicians on a wide range of genetic cases...from the simplest to the most complex.

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