Non-disclosure preimplantation genetic diagnosis for Huntington's disease: Practical and ethical dilemmas

Prenatal Diagnosis

Volumn 18, Issue 13, 1998, Pages 1422-1426

  Braude, Peter R ^a   De Wert, Guido M W R ^a,b   Evers Kiebooms, Gerry ^c   Pettigrew, Rachel A ^d   Geraedts, Joep P M ^e  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Institute for Bioethics   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^d GUY'S AND ST THOMAS' NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^e MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Ethics; Exclusion testing; Huntington's disease; Non disclosure testing; PGD; Preimplantation diagnosis

Indexed keywords

BIOPSY; EMBRYO; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; MEDICAL ETHICS; PREIMPLANTATION EMBRYO; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONAL SECRECY; SELECTIVE ABORTION; SHORT SURVEY;

CONFIDENTIALITY; EMBRYO TRANSFER; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; ETHICS, MEDICAL; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMANS; HUNTINGTON DISEASE; PREGNANCY;

EID: 0032412865     PISSN: 01973851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0223(199812)18:13<1422::AID-PD499>3.0.CO;2-R     Document Type: Short Survey

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