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You will prepare and submit a term paper on Chromosomal Syndromes and Genetic Disease. Your paper should be a minimum of 1500 words in length. The&nbsp.researcher states that it is believed that the number of conditions that can be detected non-invasively will continue to increase. In fact, Gene Security Network and Sequenom, Inc. are currently developing tests to expand testing for other genetic abnormalities. This state-of-the-art procedure thus provides the promise of being able to detect the predilection of the fetus to any condition, whether it will manifest in childhood or adulthood. Advanced, prenatal screening, if it achieves its full potential of detecting any condition, whether fetal aneuploidy or risk of developing cancer, will provide the best evidence to which parents can base their child-rearing plans from. Thus, this paper supports further development of the non-invasive, prenatal, advanced, fetal DNA-based screening starting at ten weeks of pregnancy, so that in the future all conditions with a genetic predisposition can be screened for. Better health outcomes can result from early intervention to potentially dangerous pregnancies and better preparation for child-rearing that can be achieved through early detection provided by advanced prenatal screening. Developers should be allowed to further add onto the technology the screening for the presence of fetal DNA mutations that can result to premature termination of pregnancy or failure to thrive that cannot be prevented so that early detection of such conditions can protect the couple from undergoing a futile or potentially dangerous process of full-term pregnancy.