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KFSHRC Preventive Fetal Screening Program
Uses prenatal testing, NGS and noninvasive prenatal testing to identify severe inherited disorders and support reproductive decision-making.
01 / Project overview
What the record establishes.
- Geographic scope
- Pregnant women and high-risk Saudi families referred to KFSHRC
- Project type
- Prenatal and fetal genomic screening program
- Research domain
- Rare-disease prevention and reproductive genomics
- Years
- Not stated
- Lifecycle status
- active
- Status basis
- KFSHRC published active program outcomes in February 2025 and described continuing annual family service and disease-panel expansion.
- Status evidence date
- 2025-02-01
- Scale
- 1,104 pregnant women reported; tests more than 300 genes and supports about 1,500 families annually, with expansion toward more than 500 additional diseases.
02 / Organizations and population
Who and what the project connects.
- Lead organizations
- King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre (KFSHRC)
- Partner organizations
- Not stated
- Organism / population
- Pregnant women, fetuses and high-risk Saudi families
03 / Data and access
What exists and how it can be reached.
Data types
- targeted next-generation sequencing
- noninvasive prenatal testing
- prenatal diagnostics
- family history
Data access
Clinical service; individual data controlled
Identifiers
No public accession or identifier is listed for this record.
04 / Evidence and provenance
Why the record is included.
Inclusion basis
Large, operational genomic screening program with an explicit patient count, gene-panel scope and national-referral role.
Editorial note
The KFSHRC headline reports 276 detected disorders/cases while SPA reports 267, likely a transposition; the description avoids using either as a definitive denominator.
Sources
- primary record source Verified 2026-08-15
- additional record source Verified 2026-08-15
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