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PEStimate: predicting offspring disease risk after polygenic embryo screening.
Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) - 1 Jun 2026
Klausner Liraz, Revital Ateret, Lencz Todd, Carmi Shai
Abstract excerpt
MOTIVATION: Polygenic embryo screening (PES) is a new, controversial technology, whereby human in vitro fertilization embryos are screened for their genetic risk of complex, polygenic diseases. PES aims to reduce the disease burden in offspring by prioritizing the selection of low-risk embryos. However, given that polygenic diseases are usually late-onset, PES outcomes must be estimated by epidemiological...
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