From this newspaper (Reporter Tang Wenjia) Yesterday, the genetic counseling and diagnosis and treatment network in the Yangtze River Delta was formally established and launched. The network will gather a team of authoritative experts and scholars in the field of genetic counseling to jointly build a genetic counseling expert database, build a big data platform for genetic testing and counseling, and provide overall treatment and health improvement programs for various genetic-related diseases.
The Yangtze River Delta Genetic Counseling and Diagnosis Network is located in Shanghai. By inviting high-level experts at home and abroad to participate, it will help to further improve the level of genetic counseling in various regions of my country and promote the exchange of international experience. At the same time, in the field of comprehensive prevention and control of genetic diseases such as birth defects, tumors, cardiovascular, diabetes, and bones, the diagnosis and treatment network will lead the construction of an innovative community of normal and abnormal gene sequence clusters and genetic counseling, bringing milestones to clinical disease diagnosis and treatment. Variety.
The meeting was hosted by the Genetic Counseling Branch of the Genetics Society of China and the Expert Committee on Genetic Counseling Capacity Building of the National Health Commission Capacity Building and Continuing Education Center.
Deputy Mayor Chen Qun attended the meeting.