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.
- Factors impacting adolescent and young adult cancer patients’ decision to pursue genetic counseling and testing.
- First trimester ultrasound in the age of cell-free DNA screening: What are we missing?
- Expanded carrier screening in the United States: A systematic evidence review exploring client and provider experiences.
- Incidental Detection of Maternal Malignancy by Fetal Cell-Free DNA Screening.
- Utility of expanded carrier screening in pregnancies with ultrasound abnormalities.
- Hypoglycemia in mitochondrial disorders.
- Exploring the predicted yield of prenatal testing by evaluating a postnatal population with structural abnormalities using a novel mathematical model
- The impact of genetic counseling on women’s grief and coping following termination of pregnancy for fetal anomaly.
- Utility of expanded carrier screening in pregnancies with ultrasound abnormalities.
- Genesurance counseling: Current training practices of genetic counseling graduate programs in the United States.
- Project Inclusive Genetics: Exploring the impact of patient-centered counseling training on physical disability bias in the prenatal setting.
- The utilization of prenatal microarray: A survey of current genetic counseling practices and barriers.
- Current genetic counseling practice in the United States following positive non-invasive prenatal testing for sex chromosome abnormalities.
- It takes two: uptake of carrier screening among male reproductive partners.
- Attitudes of clinicians toward cardiac surgery and trisomy 18.
- Introduction of cell-free DNA screening is associated with changes in prenatal genetic counseling indications.
- Relieving the Bottleneck: An Investigation of Barriers to Expansion of Supervision Networks at Genetic Counseling Training Programs.
- Physicians’ Awareness and Utilization of Genetic Services in Texas.
- Undergraduate Student Perceptions and Awareness of Genetic Counseling.
- Genetic Counseling Overview for the Obstetrician-Gynecologist.
- Clinical experience with sex chromosome aneuploidies detected by noninvasive prenatal testing (NIPT): Accuracy and patient decision-making.
- Attitudes Toward and Uptake of Prenatal Genetic Screening and Testing in Twin Pregnancies.
- Close but not quite: Two cases of sex chromosome aneuploidies outside the scope of cell free DNA screening.
- Prenatal chromosomal microarray uptake with invasive prenatal diagnosis: How many patients take the leap?
- Genesurance Counseling: Patient Perspectives.
- Managing Variant Interpretation Discrepancies in Hereditary Cancer: Clinical Practice, Concerns, and Desired Resources.