Nonprofit Groups Offer Genetic Testing for Jewish Students

Laura D. Rosenblatt hadn't given much thought to her genes. But then a member of her sorority at the University of Pittsburgh e-mailed her about an on-campus screening for hereditary diseases. Ms. Rosenblatt makes an effort to support her sorority sisters, so she got screened.

And, as a 19-year-old freshman, Ms. Rosenblatt found out she is a carrier — a healthy person with the recessive genes for a disease — for Canavan disease, a life-threatening illness that may

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