Discussing X-Linked Carrier Status With Your Daughter with Ali Conn, MS, CGC

Our Carrier Connections program features a different X-linked condition or community topic each month with the goal to increase awareness of X-linked conditions and how they impact the lives of women and girls. This month, we are highlighting the topic of discussing X-linked inheritance and carrier status with your daughter(s). Today we are chatting with Ali Conn. Ali is a pediatric genetic counselor at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago (all views expressed are her own). She has an undergraduate degree in biomedical engineering, but confirmed that her teenage love for Punnett squares actually was her calling when she graduated from genetic counseling school in 2022. She loves working with pediatric patients and their families, seeking diagnoses for adults with autism, LGBTQ+ advocacy, and will probably show you pictures of her dogs. Carrier Connections is sponsored by Kyowa Kirin and Amgen. For more information about our organization, check out ⁠⁠rememberthegirls.org⁠⁠.