Recent Publications and Ongoing Research
Our providers within the Division of Genetic Counseling in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences at UTHealth Houston are committed to improving patient care and empowering patient decision-making through research.
Our primary study topics include advancing genetic technologies, patient access to genetic counseling services, and provider education. In addition to our genetics research, we also work with a multidisciplinary team and collaborate with multiple specialties to advance research within the spectrum of reproductive healthcare. Our Division participates in multiple active research studies locally, nationally, and internationally. We are proud of our continued dedication to leading-edge research and advancements in our field.
- Attitudes Toward and Uptake of Prenatal Genetic Screening and Testing in Twin Pregnancies. (external link) (external link)
- Factors impacting adolescent and young adult cancer patients’ decision to pursue genetic counseling and testing. (external link) (external link)
- First trimester ultrasound in the age of cell-free DNA screening: What are we missing? (external link) (external link)
- Expanded carrier screening in the United States: A systematic evidence review exploring client and provider experiences. (external link) (external link)
- Incidental Detection of Maternal Malignancy by Fetal Cell-Free DNA Screening. (external link) (external link)
- Utility of expanded carrier screening in pregnancies with ultrasound abnormalities. (external link) (external link)
- Hypoglycemia in mitochondrial disorders. (external link) (external link)
- Exploring the predicted yield of prenatal testing by evaluating a postnatal population with structural abnormalities using a novel mathematical model (external link) (external link)
- The impact of genetic counseling on women’s grief and coping following termination of pregnancy for fetal anomaly. (external link) (external link)
- Utility of expanded carrier screening in pregnancies with ultrasound abnormalities. (external link) (external link)
- Genesurance counseling: Current training practices of genetic counseling graduate programs in the United States. (external link) (external link)
- Project Inclusive Genetics: Exploring the impact of patient-centered counseling training on physical disability bias in the prenatal setting. (external link) (external link)
- Two different genetic etiologies for tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC) in a single family. (external link) (external link)
- Patients with unexplained mismatch repair deficiency are interested in updated genetic testing. (external link) (external link)
- Impact of Emerging Technologies in Prenatal Genetic Counseling. (external link) (external link)
- The utilization of prenatal microarray: A survey of current genetic counseling practices and barriers. (external link) (external link)
- Current genetic counseling practice in the United States following positive non-invasive prenatal testing for sex chromosome abnormalities. (external link) (external link)
- It takes two: uptake of carrier screening among male reproductive partners. (external link) (external link)
- Attitudes of clinicians toward cardiac surgery and trisomy 18. (external link) (external link)
- Introduction of cell-free DNA screening is associated with changes in prenatal genetic counseling indications. (external link) (external link)
- Relieving the Bottleneck: An Investigation of Barriers to Expansion of Supervision Networks at Genetic Counseling Training Programs. (external link) (external link)
- Physicians’ Awareness and Utilization of Genetic Services in Texas. (external link) (external link)
- Undergraduate Student Perceptions and Awareness of Genetic Counseling. (external link) (external link)
- Genetic Counseling Overview for the Obstetrician-Gynecologist. (external link) (external link)
- Clinical experience with sex chromosome aneuploidies detected by noninvasive prenatal testing (NIPT): Accuracy and patient decision-making. (external link) (external link)
- Attitudes Toward and Uptake of Prenatal Genetic Screening and Testing in Twin Pregnancies. (external link) (external link)
- Close but not quite: Two cases of sex chromosome aneuploidies outside the scope of cell free DNA screening. (external link) (external link)
- Prenatal chromosomal microarray uptake with invasive prenatal diagnosis: How many patients take the leap? (external link) (external link)
- Genesurance Counseling: Patient Perspectives. (external link) (external link)
- Managing Variant Interpretation Discrepancies in Hereditary Cancer: Clinical Practice, Concerns, and Desired Resources. (external link) (external link)