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University of Health Sciences, İzmir Tepecik Training and Research Hospital, Genetic Diagnosis Center, started to serve with the Medical Genetics outpatient clinic in 2009. In 2010, the molecular genetics laboratory was started to be built and in 2011, a license application was made in the field of molecular genetics. In 2012, our center was licensed as a "Genetic Diagnosis Center".In August 2016, our department moved to Tepecik Training and Research Hospital-Bornova Building. Since then, our center has been serving in the fields of clinical genetics, Molecular Genetics, and Cytogenetics with 8 Medical Genetics specialist physicians (2 of whom are Associate Professors), 2 biologists, and 4 laboratory technicians.

Clinical evaluations to investigate the etiology of mental retardation and multiple congenital anomalies are being carried out. For the conditions such as rare diseases and familial cancers, genetic counseling services are provided to families.

Chromosome analysis in peripheral blood samples is performed to investigate the etiology of infertile couples; chromosome analysis in prenatal samples is performed for fetal anomalies or prenatal risk increases and chromosome analysis and FISH studies in bone marrow samples are performed for the diagnosis and follow-up examination of hematological malignancies.

For the diagnosis of rare diseases and other single-gene diseases, "Next-generation sequence analysis-NGS” is used. For the investigation of the etiology of mental retardation and multiple congenital anomalies, microarray analysis that can be applied in very few centers in the country is performed. For the diagnosis and determination of the prognosis of cancers, various molecular genetic methods that can be studied from tissue samples or tumor-derived extracellular free DNA (ccfDNA) samples are used.

In our genetic diagnosis center, an average of 15,000 patients are evaluated annually and an average of 25,000 tests are performed.

In 2018, the first time in our country, the Non-invasive Prenatal Test (NIPT) Symposium was held in our department.

Tarihçemiz

Ağustos 2016 döneminde bölümümüz Tepecik Eğitim Araştırma Hastanesi Bornova Ek Binasına taşınmış o tarihten bu yana Poliklinik ve Moleküler Genetik- Sitogenetik alanlarındaki hizmetlerini 2’ si Doçent olan, 8 Tıbbi Genetik uzmanı hekimi, 2 biyolog ve 4 laboratuvar teknisyeni ile sürdürmektedir.