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. 2017 May;18(5):666-669.
doi: 10.15252/embr.201744253. Epub 2017 Apr 10.

Healthy children without fear: Reproductive options for patients or couples carrying inherited diseases

Joep Geraedts  1
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Healthy children without fear: Reproductive options for patients or couples carrying inherited diseases

Joep Geraedts. EMBO Rep. 2017 May.

Abstract

Prenatal diagnostics and preimplantation genetic screening are safe and efficient methods to help parents with inherited mutations for severe diseases to have healthy children. Its expansion into adult‐onset diseases and cancer raises challenges for regulation of assisted reproductive technologies and coverage by healthcare systems.

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