Uses of Genetic testing

• Determining sex
• Carrier screening, or the identification of unaffected individuals who carry one copy of a gene for a disease that requires two copies for the disease to manifest
• Prenatal diagnostic screening
• Newborn screening
• Presymptomatic testing for predicting adult-onset disorders
• Presymptomatic testing for estimating the risk of developing adult-onset cancers
• Confirmational diagnosis of symptomatic individuals
• Forensic/identity testing