Birth of a Normal Girl after in Vitro Fertilization and Preimplantation Diagnostic Testing for Cystic Fibrosis

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BACKGROUND: Cystic fibrosis is a common, severe autosomal recessive disease caused in a majority of cases by a three-nucleotide deletion (delta F508) in the cystic fibrosis transmembrane regulator gene. Current methods of prenatal diagnosis involve chorionic-villus sampling or amniocentesis. In vitro fertilization and diagnosis during embryonic development before implantation would allow only unaffected embryos...

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