title: Genetic testing: new challenges in the healthcare of women. Interview by Hannah Branch.
abstract: Dr Wera Hofmann is an expert in biochemistry and has over 12 years of human genetic diagnostics experience. Until 2006, she supervised a diagnostic unit for BRCA gene testing at the Interdisciplinary Center for Hereditary Breast Cancer (Max Delbrück Center, Berlin, Germany). She has also been the Managing Director of the Professional Association of German Human Geneticists, BVDH, which is a trade association. In 2008, Hofmann became a Medical Director at LifeCodexx (Konstanz, Germany), where she has worked on the development of a noninvasive prenatal diagnostic test that detects chromosomal aneuploidies in fetuses.
authors.affiliation: LifeCodexx AG, Jakob-Stadler-Platz 7, D-78467 Konstanz, Germany. w.hofmann@lifecodexx.com.
authors.forename: Wera
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Hofmann
authors.forename: Hannah
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Branch
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D019398:Genes, BRCA1; D024522:Genes, BRCA2; D020022:Genetic Predisposition to Disease; D005820:Genetic Testing; D061325:Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer Syndrome / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000235:genetics; D006801:Humans; D011296:Prenatal Diagnosis