 I am Dr. Sridhivi Hedde and I have set up this department of medical genetics in the year 1998. It is one of the oldest departments in the country with excellent clinical services and the state-of-the-art diagnostic genetic lab. It's unique because we have all the services under one roof. We were able to use all our clinical skills and the lab testing to help a 46-year-old lady who came to our department asking us if we could help her have a normal child. She had two boys aged 18 years and 14 years. One was bed-ridden, the other was wheelchair-bound. Both were affected with a condition called deusion muscular dystrophy. Deusion muscular dystrophy is a very, very morbid condition with the boys not able to survive beyond the second decade of their life. But their mental faculties will be very, very acute. They lose their respiratory ability because of the weakness of the muscles which gradually ascend. Deusion muscular dystrophy is an excellent recessive genetic disorder with the condition affecting 50% of the boys and often the mother will be a carrier for this deletion in the deusion muscular dystrophy gene. So she told us that her sister who was in the United States had undergone her testing as she also had her first affected male child being affected with the same condition, deusion muscular dystrophy. And during her second pregnancy, she underwent testing and she had a normal child. So this lady asked us, are these facilities available in our country? I said yes, of course, we can help you, we can do this for you. So we tested her boys and her also. We found the deletion in the deusion muscular dystrophy gene in her boys and we found she was a carrier for it. But she was 36 years old and she had already undergone tubectomy after her second pregnancy. So I explained the condition to her and what we could do to help her. But she was determined to have another normal baby if we could help her. So she underwent tubal recandalization and with an assisted conception, she conceived this time twins and both were male babies. So at three months of age, we put a needle in under the ultrasound guidance and did a test called corionic billus sampling outside the fetuses from the placental tissue. We took that tissue and we tested that for the deusion muscular dystrophy. And we found that one of the male twins was affected. That means that fetus had the deletion in the deusion muscular dystrophy gene and the other fetus, the male baby, was normal. So we explained to her and she made a choice of reducing the affected twin. And so she continued her pregnancy and she delivered a normal male baby. She was very happy but still she was very anxious. When she came to us for follow-up at the age of one year with a little boy running around and she was still worried, please test him again. I really am scared and anxious. By then she had lost her older boy and she told us the story how this little fellow would go and try to help the older brother and talk to him and smile at him. And we tested him again just for her satisfaction and we told her he is normal. She was so happy. We were also so happy to see her being happy at last and we were able to help her with one normal baby which was her dream.