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California

Pacific Fertility Center
55 Francisco Street, Suite 500
San Francisco, CA 94133
Director:  Carolyn Givens, MD, Co-Director of Bay Area Pre-implantation Genetic Diagosis Pgm. & Director of PFC
Contact:  New Patient Guides
Phone:  888-834-3095
E-mail:  info@pacificfertility.com
Tests: Carrier , Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis
Website: http://www.pacificfertility.com
Notes: PFC can do PGD for any disease for which testing is available.

Quest Diagnostics Inc.
33608 Ortega Highway
San Juan Capistrano, CA 92675
Director:  Charles Strom, MD, PhD
Contact:  Joy B. Redman, MS
Phone:  800-642-4657 X4279; FAX: 949-728-4874
E-mail:  joy.b.redman@questdiagnostics.com
Tests: Carrier , Prenatal , Diagnostic

Notes: Testing is also available at this laboratory for 9 other JGD (Carrier, Prenatal & Diagnostic) and Tay-Sachs --DNA only.

UCLA Prenatal Diagnosis Center
300 Medical Plaza, Suite 3102
Los Angeles , CA 90095-6969
Director:  Barbara Crandall, MD
Contact:  Jane Peredo, Sc.M.
Phone:  310-825-0300
E-mail:  jperedo@mednet.ucla.edu
Tests: Carrier , Prenatal , Diagnostic

Notes: Testing is available at this laboratory for 10 other Jewish genetic diseases -- Carrier, Prenatal and Diagnostic. Sends blood specimens for testing.

University Childrens Genetics Laboratory
A Division of ProGene, Inc.
116 East Broadway
Glendale, CA 91205
Director:  Toni R. Prezant, PhD
Contact:  Toni R. Prezant, PhD
Phone:  (818) 548-0999 & FAX (818) 548-1555
E-mail:  tprezant@progene.us
Tests: Carrier , Prenatal , Diagnostic

Notes: Carrier, Prenatal & Diagnostic testing available at this laboratory for 5 other Jewish Genetic Diseases. Canavan linkage testing for families w/2 or more affected children who don't have Ashkenazi Jewish mutations.

450 West End Avenue #6A, New York, New York 10024
212.873.4640 || (toll free) 877-4-CANAVAN || (fax) 212.873.7892
info@canavanfoundation.org