Introduction of Reproductive Genetics Department

Established in 2011, Reproductive Genetics Department in Women’s Hospital School of Medicine Zhejiang University is a broad-based clinical, investigative, and educational department with a faculty of more than twenty. The mission of the department is to provide excellent, comprehensive care to families with known genetic or suspected genetic disorders, and to lower birth defects from the source. The department offers a variety of clinical services including clinical evaluation, risk assessment, genetic counseling, and genetic testing for high-risk families associated with recurrent pregnancy loss, congenital malformations, intellectual disability and/or, a variety of genetic disorders, and provides comprehensive prenatal screening, prenatal diagnostic, pre-implantation genetic screening and diagnosis (PGS/PGD) programs. When appropriate, we conduct research which may reveal the genetic cause of the specific disease so that  patients can understand their condition better. The department is a leader of reproductive genetics in Zhejiang Province and is nationally renowned.