Podcasts by Genotypecast with Grey Genetics
Genetics isn’t always black and white. News stories related to genetics often raise more questions than they answer. On Genotypecast, we bring you insight from genetic counselors.
Your host, Eleanor Griffith, MS, CGC, is a certified genetic counselor and the founder of Grey Genetics, an independent telehealth genetic counseling and consulting service.
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Prenatal Screening, False Positives, and NYT's Coverage from 2022-01-06T04:01:42
On January 1, 2022, the New York Times published an article focused on the high false positive rates of micro-deletions and -duplications in non-invasive prenatal screening tests NIPS/NIPT. The ...
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A Conversation with a Palestinian Genetic Counselor from 2021-05-28T02:57:34
Hebbah Sayed-Ahmad is a Palestinian American prenatal genetic counselor. She shares her experiences as a Palestinian within the genetic counseling profession. She also discusses what has been de...
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Later Abortions, Reproductive Justice, and Genetic Counselors’ Obligation to Speak Up from 2021-04-22T01:55:10
Certified genetic counselor Jordan Brown follows up on Katie Sagaser’s tweets exhorting genetic counselors t...
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Addressing Health Disparities in Sickle Cell Disease from 2020-12-15T16:42:59
Certified genetic counselor Barbara W. Harrison discusses how racism impacts the health disparities in Sickle Cell Disease, gene therapies in development, and how these developments are being re...
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Race-Based Medicine is Bad Medicine from 2020-10-20T15:09:40
Elizabeth Fieg, MS, CGC expands on her recent Twitter thread, discussing the problems with using categories o...
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The Promise of Gene Therapy in Ocular Genetics from 2020-10-07T15:02:09
Naomi Wagner, MS, CGC dives into the topic of gene therapy, explaining why ocular genetics is an especially promising area for gene therapy and how discussion of gene therapy with patients is a ...
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NCCN Guidelines & Expanded Recommendations for Germline Testing Based on Tumor Genomic Testing Results from 2020-10-04T01:04:07
Karen Huelsman MS, LGC discusses recent NCCN guideline updates which expand genetic testing criteria (for high-penetrance hereditary breast and/or ovarian cancer susceptibility genes) to i...
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When a NYT Article Stirs up Confusion about Reproductive Genetics from 2020-09-23T12:50:36
Certified genetic counselor Brianne Kirkpatrick discusses the recent New York Times article “When a DNA Test Says You’re a Younger Man, Who Lives 5,000 Miles Away.” How surprising is this story?...
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Black in Genetic Counseling from 2020-09-03T15:12:44
Certified genetic counselor Deanna Darnes was the first Black student to graduate from her genetic counseling training program of The University of Texas Genetic Counseling Program (UTGCP) in 20...
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ACOG Now Recommends that NIPS be offered to all pregnant women from 2020-08-28T14:09:40
Certified genetic counselor Emily Goldberg discusses the new ACOG guidelines related to Screening for Fetal Chromosomal Abnormalities. ACOG (The American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology) no...
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Structural Racism in Genetic Testing from 2020-06-23T01:20:04
Certified genetic counselor Aishwarya Arjunan, MS, MPH, CGC, CPH expands on her recent tweet, which got a lot of atte...
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Cascade Testing: Can Telehealth Help Make it Happen? from 2020-02-18T16:37:18
One of the benefits of identifying hereditary cancer mutations in individuals is Cascade Testing—being able to offer targeted testing to family members to identify others who are at high risk as...
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ACMG Opposition to HR 3235—and the Backlash from 2020-01-20T18:28:13
On January 9, the American College of Medical Genetics sent a letter to members of the House of Representatives, voicing their opposition to HR 3235, a bill that would allow genetic counselors t...
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George Church’s DigiD8 Brings Eugenics to Dating Apps from 2019-12-18T00:10:26
Certified genetic counselor Katya Orlova discusses George’s Church’s new venture, DigiD8, which aims to add a new layer to how people match on dating apps: preventing matches between individuals...
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Panel Testing: Insurance Coverage and Clinical Utility from 2019-11-06T11:43:47
Certified genetic counselor Kate Wilson discusses both clinical care and insurance billing and coverage issues surrounding gene panel testing. Numerous studies have shown higher positive rates w...
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Carrier Screening Panels are Getting Bigger… Is that Better? from 2019-10-25T19:17:51
On this second episode of Genotypecast, certified genetic counselor Amber Gamma discusses the continued expansion of Universal Carrier Screening panels—business motivations, clinical utility, im...
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DNA Donations: Implications to Consider from 2019-09-24T18:12:58
On this first episode of Genotypecast, certified genetic counselor Brianne Kirkpatrick of Watershed DNA reviews two recent news stories related to cord blood and sperm donations, discussing the ...
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