Lives to save lives - The ethics of tissue typing

Human Fertility

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 5-11

  Bellamy, Stephen ^a  

^a St James' Vicarage   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IN VITRO STUDY; INFERTILITY THERAPY; MEDICAL ETHICS; PREIMPLANTATION EMBRYO; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAFETY; SIBLING; TISSUE TYPING;

GENETICS AND REPRODUCTION; HUMAN FERTILISATION AND EMBRYOLOGY AUTHORITY;

FEMALE; GENETIC DISEASES, INBORN; GREAT BRITAIN; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY TESTING; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; PREGNANCY; PREIMPLANTATION DIAGNOSIS; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED; TISSUE DONORS;

EID: 18144431737     PISSN: 14647273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14647270500030597     Document Type: Article

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