Athena provides an Action Pack for presymptomatic testing which includes literature and an agreement that must be signed by the clinician and returned prior to testing. Athena does not perform predictive HD testing for individuals under the age of 18. In cases of diagnostic HD testing for minors, there must be medically compelling reasons for testing.
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Technical Information
Utility:
Detects CAG triplet repeat expansion in the IT15 gene
Methodology:
Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) and Fragment Analysis by Capillary Electrophoresis with Southern blot confirmation
