Regulatory Developments in Genetic Testing in Israel Emerging technologies
Current legislation and regulation of genetic testing in Israel Genetic testing in Israel is performed in most major public and government hospitals and in a few private laboratories. There is widespread use of genetic testing as part of prenatal diagnosis and genetic counselling services. It is also used as a (postnatal) diagnostic tool in HLA typing, infectious diseases, cancer and as a diagnostic aid for many specific diseases such as thalassemia, haemophilia, hypercholesterolemia, blood coagulation, etc. In addition genetic testing is applied to paternity testing and to forensics. Accreditation of laboratories