The department occupies about 70 employees from more than 10 different
professions: biochemists, dieticians, engineers, laboratory technicians,
molecular biologists, nurses, physicians, medical secretaries and other office
personnel.
The department annually performs approx.
- 1,000 genetic counselling sessions
- 500 cancer genetic counselling sessions
- 2,000 outpatient consultations
- 700 inhospital consultations
- 3,000 prenatal chromosome and aneuploidy MPLA analyses
- 1,300 postnatal chromosome analyses
- 1,000 molecular cytogenetic analyses: array CGH and MPLA
- 1,800 chromosome analyses for leukemia and other blood malignancies
- 900 molecular analyses for leukemia and other blood malignancies
- 4,000 investigations for inborn errors of metabolism
- 2,500 DNA analyses for postnatal diagnosis of patients and family
members
- 200 DNA analyses for prenatal and preimplantation
diagnosis.