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AFP testing "has been going on in the U.S. in private programs for quite some time," Holmes said, but he and Erbe agreed the demand for prenatal diagnosis is definitely on the rise.
Dr. Lewis Holmes, associate professor of Pediatrics, said last week that he is raising funds to start a program that would give any pregnant woman receiving care at Peter Bent Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston the opportunity to undergo the screening.
The program is "past the point of research," and ready for use, Holmes said.
The development of a new technique that can determine whether observed AFP levels are attributable to neural tube defects or to other possible causes has improved the effectiveness of the genetic screening process, Holmes said.
Because the laboratories cooperating with the Erbe and Holmes effort antedate the regulation, they can continue AFP testing without waiting for FDA approval. These research centers include the Eunice Kennedy Shriver Center in Waltham, where Dr. Aubrey Millunsky, assistant professor of Pediatrics, has been directing AFP testing since 1973, and...