Genetic Testing For Developmental Disabilities, Intellectual Disability, & Autism Spectrum Disorder

This report, released in June of 2015, is based on research conducted by the ECRI–Penn Medicine AHRQ Evidence-based Practice Center (EPC) under contract to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). The information in this report is intended to help health care decisionmakers — patients and clinicians, health system leaders, and policymakers, among others — make well-informed decisions and thereby improve the quality of health care services. This Technical Brief collects and summarizes information on genetic tests clinically available in the United States to detect genetic markers that predispose to developmental disabilities (DDs . . .