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

Joep Geraedts

doi:10.15252/embr.201744253

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

Joep Geraedts^*

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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. [Image: see text]

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	666-669
Number of pages	4
Journal	Embo Reports
Volume	18
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.15252/embr.201744253
Publication status	Published - May 2017

Keywords

PREIMPLANTATION GENETIC DIAGNOSIS
HUNTINGTONS-DISEASE

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