Prenatal Testing Ethics

Summary:
This paper explores the scientific and ethical considerations of DNA testing in prenatal testing (PT).Taking into consideration non-invasive and invasive sampling and the ethical issues DNA testing raises. Cell-free fetal DNA (CffDNA) in prenatal screening which considers being a recent non-invasive technique. This non-invasive diagnostic test believes to be much safer and can be performed in early pregnancy easily comparing to invasive diagnostic testing. However, CffDNA has flows such as confidentiality, informed consent, and counseling.
Introduction:
-The introduction is well-written, easy to follow and inform the reader about the topic.
- A great background information which identifies and describes the history of DNA.
-The language
The title is more broad (DNA testing; science and ethics) while the fundamental thought is about (The scientific and ethical considerations of DNA testing in PT). In my opinion, it's better to choose another title for the article.
- More examples of how to use DNA testing other than specifying Prenatal testing should be mentioned. Furthermore, a misspelled word occur in the conclusion (page 9) ( counseling ) which was written (counselling) and grammar mistake (page 2) the noun (contribution ) seems to be missing a determiner before it like (a) or (the).
- In this essay, using figures or statistic data especially in (Case study) will be helpful and useful for the reader to understand more about the topic.
- A cost compression between invasive and non¬-invasive DNA testing should be mention in this article .Because there is some uncertainty around the incorporation of non-invasive prenatal testing into current strategies for prenatal screening and diagnosis.
- It would be useful for the authors and the readers to add the limitations of the study because there was no mention of it in the essay.
Organization:
- A solid structured essay.
-In general this paper is well-organized , there is a clear introduction ,main idea and