Whois & Analysis for natera.com

A hereditary carrier (or just carrier), is a person or other organism that has inherited a recessive allele for a genetic trait or mutation but does not display that trait or show symptoms of the disease.

Carriers are, however, able to pass the allele onto their offspring, who may then express the genetic if they inherit the recessive allele from both parents.

The chance of two carriers having a child with the disease is 25%.

This phenomenon is a direct result of the recessive nature of many genes.

Non-invasive prenatal diagnosis or non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT) is prenatal diagnosis with none or insignificant level of invasiveness, and includes methods such as:

Miscarriage, also known as spontaneous abortion and pregnancy loss, is the natural death of an embryo or fetus before it is able to survive independently.

Some use the cutoff of 20 weeks of gestation after which fetal death is known as a stillbirth.

The most common symptoms of a miscarriage is vaginal bleeding with or without pain.

Sadness, anxiety and guilt may occur.

Tissue or clot-like material may also come out of the vagina.

Natera (previously Gene Security Network) is a genetic testing company that operates a CLIA-certified laboratory in San Carlos, California.

The company specializes in analyzing microscopic quantities of DNA for reproductive health indications to provide preconception and prenatal genetic testing services primarily to OBGYN physicians and in vitro fertilization centers.

Minimally invasive procedures (also known as minimally invasive surgeries) have been enabled by the advance of various medical technologies.

Surgery by definition is invasive and many operations requiring incisions of some size are referred to as open surgery.

Incisions made can sometimes leave large wounds that are painful and take a long time to heal.

Minimally invasive surgery refers to surgical techniques that limit the size of incisions needed and so lessens wound healing time, associated pain and risk of infection.

An endovascular aneurysm repair as an example of minimally invasive surgery is much less invasive in that it involves much smaller incisions, than the corresponding open surgery procedure of open aortic surgery.

This minimally invasive surgery became the most common method of repairing abdominal aortic aneurysms in 2003 in the United States.