The Victor Center for the Prevention of Jewish Genetic Diseases has expanded services to offer genetic screening and virtual clinical consults to couples and individuals in New York, New Jersey and Maryland.
The center, which also serves Florida, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania, helps future parents identify whether they are at risk of passing on genetic diseases, including those common among people of Jewish ancestry.
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Jewish genetic diseases are a group of recessive, inherited disorders that occur with significant frequency in the Ashkenazi Jewish community. Individuals of Ashkenazi descent have higher carrier rates for diseases such as Tay-Sachs, Canavan, familial dysautonomia, and Gaucher.
Sephardic and Mizrachi Jews are also at increased risk for certain genetic disorders.
There is a fee for Victor Center screening services. However, most medical insurance plans cover the service. For more information, please call 786-897-9587 or visit https://www.victorcenter.org/
