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Preimplantation genetic diagnosis for susceptibility conditions: a new frontier or a logical extension?
Journal of law and medicine - 1 Oct 2008
Snelling Jeanne
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A susceptibility or "lower penetrance" condition is a condition to which a person may be predisposed by virtue of a particular gene mutation they carry within their genetic code. Genetic testing for susceptibility to late-onset conditions, an increasingly available phenomenon, has recently been associated with preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD). Performing PGD for conditions that occur later in life and that...
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