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The mission of the Victor Centers for Jewish Genetic Diseases is to ensure ongoing access to comprehensive genetic education, screening and counseling services. This is accomplished through Jewish community education programs and screening programs for healthy individuals at risk for being carriers of a gene mutation for any one of these diseases.
Lois B. Victor, a mother who lost two daughters to a Jewish genetic disease, founded the Victor Centers for Jewish Genetic Diseases. In 2002, the National Coordinating Office opened at Albert Einstein Healthcare Network in Philadelphia. Through the generosity of Lois Victor, other funders and Albert Einstein Healthcare Network, the Victor Center at Einstein has screened over 2,000 young adults to date. Given this success and the ultimate goal of eradicating the Jewish Genetic Diseases, the second Victor Program opened in 2005 at floating hospital for Children at Tufts Medical Center in Boston, and the third center opened at University of Miami's Miller School of Medicine in 2007. Expansion plans for other Victor Centers across the country are in progress.
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Some insurance policies cover preconception Jewish genetic diseases screening. Contact us if you would like information about how to verify insurance coverage for Jewish genetic disease screening. For help finding local geneticists or genetic counselors in your community, visit www.acmg.net or www.nsgc.org.
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The Victor Centers provides full service genetic counseling and screening to all interested individuals and couples. Genetic counseling and screening for Jewish genetic diseases is offered both in the office and through the community screenings.
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Ashkenazi Jewish genetic diseases are a group of disorders that occur with higher frequency in the Ashkenazi Jewish population. People of Ashkenazi descent have ancestors from Central and Eastern Europe (i.e. Poland, Russia, Germany, Lithuania, etc.) It is estimated that 1 in 5 Ashkenazi Jews is a carrier of a mutation in at least one of several disease genes.
Sephardic Jewish genetic diseases are a group of disorders that occur with higher frequency in the Sephardic Jewish Population. "Sephardic" is the term originally used for Jews who descended primarily from Spain and Portugal, but now also includes Jews descended from the Middle East and Northern Africa. Sephardic Jews are at risk of being carriers of different diseases than Ashkenazi Jews.
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