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Pandora's box: ethics of PGD for inherited risk of late-onset disorders.

Reproductive biomedicine online - 1 Jan 2008

Noble Ray, Bahadur Gulam, Iqbal Mohammad, Sanyal Arnab

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Until recently, the primary use of preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) has been the selection of embryos to avoid lethal or debilitating gene mutations or abnormal chromosome complement. PGD can be used to reduce the risk of transferring to the uterus an embryo with Down syndrome, and parents who are carriers of severe genetic diseases may choose to avoid having children with these debilitating genetic...

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PMID: 18983739
DOI: 10.1016/s1472-6483(10)60332-x

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