Expert Genetic Diagnostic Services

for GPs & Specialists

Expert Genetic Diagnostic Services

for GPs & Specialists

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Newcastle Medical Genetics offers diagnosis and counselling on all rare and genetic conditions including;

  • Cardiac: Familial Hypercholesterolaemia, Familial Arrhythmias (Long QT,  Brugada syndrome, AF), Unexplained Cardiac Arrest / VT/ VF, Familial or Congenital Bradycardia,  Cardiomyopathies, Congenital heart malformations, Sudden Unexplained or Cardiac Deaths.
  • Cancers: Breast, Ovarian, Bowel, Pancreatic, Thyroid, Adrenal, Kidney, Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia, Childhood cancer syndromes.
  • Childhood: Developmental, Syndromic or Growth disorders, Intellectual disability, Autism.
  • Chromosomal disorders: Klinefelter and Turner syndromes, translocations, unbalanced chromosome rearrangements, trisomy.
  • Connective tissue: Aortic dilation or dissection, Marfan Syndrome, the Ehlers Danlos syndromes, Loeys Dietz syndrome.
  • Deafness: congenital or familial.
  • Dermatological: Epidermolysis Bullosa, Vascular/lymphatic malformations, Ectodermal dysplasias, DNA repair defects, Neurocutaneous disorders.
  • Eye: Hereditary retinopathies, Retinitis Pigmentosa.
  • Endocrine: Congenital Adrenal Hypo and Hyperplasia, Familial Hypercalciuric Hypocalcaemia, Pseudohypoparathyroidism
  • Genetic results:  Interpretation of chromosome microarray or sequencing results.
  • Muscular dystrophy or myopathy at all ages: Duchenne, Limb Girdle, FSHD, Myotonic Dystrophy, Myotonia Congenita.
  • Metabolic: Enzyme deficiencies, Mitochondrial disorders.
  • Neurological: Ataxias, Familial Epilepsy, Hereditary motor and sensory neuropathies (Charcot Marie Tooth), Leukodystrophies, Motor neurone disease, Huntington disease, Familial Dementias, Movement disorders, Periodic paralyses.
  • Pregnancy planning: preconception carrier screening, advice about personal or family medical history, fetal loss with genetic anomalies.
  • Rare Disorders: Hereditary Haemorrhagic Telangiectasia, Tuberous Sclerosis, Neurofibromatosis, Familial Cerebral Cavernous Haemangiomas, Ataxia Telangiectasia,
  • Renal: Polycystic kidney disease, Alport syndrome, Familial glomerulonephritis, Familial Nephrotic Syndrome.
  • Respiratory: Cystic Fibrosis, Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension, Alpha-1-antitrypsin Deficiency.
  • Skeletal Dysplasias, Osteogenesis Imperfecta (Brittle bone disease), Hereditary Exostoses.