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- Title
ESHRE Task Force on Ethics and Law 21: genetic screening of gamete donors: ethical issues†.
- Authors
Dondorp, W.; De Wert, G.; Pennings, G.; Shenfield, F.; Devroey, P.; Tarlatzis, B.; Barri, P.; Diedrich, K.; Eichenlaub-Ritter, U.; Tüttelmann, F.; Provoost, V.
- Abstract
This Task Force document explores the ethical issues involved in the debate about the scope of genetic screening of gamete donors. Calls for expanded donor screening arise against the background of both occasional findings of serious but rare genetic conditions in donors or donor offspring that were not detected through present screening procedures and the advent of new genomic technologies promising affordable testing of donors for a wide range of conditions. Ethical principles require that all stakeholders' interests are taken into account, including those of candidate donors. The message of the profession should be that avoiding all risks is impossible and that testing should remain proportional.
- Subjects
GENETIC testing; MEDICAL ethics; GAMETES; ORGAN donors; TASK forces; STAKEHOLDERS; HUMAN reproduction
- Publication
Human Reproduction, 2014, Vol 29, Issue 7, p1353
- ISSN
0268-1161
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/humrep/deu111