The ICMR Genetic Research Centre was established in 1986 as a unit of Medical Genetics at the Council's Institute for Research in Reproduction, Mumbai. The unit was made an autonomous focal point of ICMR in 1986 and was than held up at the Bai Jerbai Wadia Hospital for youngsters until end of 1999.

It was moved back and situated back at the Institute of Research in Reproduction. Since its origin the inside has taken into account the necessities of families having kids with mental hindrance and various deformities.

The real movement of the middle is to run a powerful facility where couples are guided with respect to repeat danger of hereditary issue and accessibility of pre-birth determination.

Scope of Activities:

Arranged at Mumbai in Maharashtra, the Genetic Research Center (GRC) is the ICMR's just focus which offers clinical administration to people with hereditary clutters. Analysis depends on a novel blend of clinical and research center (cytogenetic, biochemical, sub-atomic) techniques. Research is gone for unwinding the atomic premise behind these scatters and to limit the event of these disarranges in the group.

Thrust Areas:

The accompanying are the pushed regions of GRC

Administration part Attending to people with hereditary clutters, arranging them clinically in disorders, analyze them utilizing best in class research facility techniques, hereditary directing, out-quiet based treatment and development and pre-birth finding in danger pregnancies.

Zones of research incorporate Chromosomal issue and single quality maladies especially inherent mistakes of digestion, genodermatoses and skeletal dysplasias.

Making a database of 'Malady ome' in India for the different hereditary sicknesses. This may help in fast screening, analysis and avoidance.

Human Resource Development:

The middle arranges workshops on pre-implantation hereditary finding and members are prepared in strategies like karyotyping, FISH, fetus accumulation, biopsy and FISH on blastomere and single cell PCR on blastomere for identifying single quality issue.

Summer preparing and winter preparing on sub-atomic and cytogenetic – strategy based ventures for M.Sc. understudies.

Real Achievements:

Critical accomplishments of GRC are the accompanying -

Systems like TFISH, MFISH, sperm FISH and utilization of entire chromosome paints to recognize chromosomal improvements as a reason for repetitive unconstrained premature births.

Screening for 22q small scale cancellation to discover its part in intrinsic heart maladies and to offer this test for pre-birth conclusion.

ELISA for HbA2 for identification of beta thalassaemia in rustic territories.

Disentangling the atomic premise of clutters of sexual separation.

Immunocytochemical test for Fragile X disorder.

Contact:

Genetic Research Centre
National Institute for Research in Reproductive Health Complex
Jehangir Meherwanji Street,
Parel,
Mumbai 400 012