Genetic screening of sperm and oocyte donors: Ethical and policy implications

JAMA

Volumn 302, Issue 15, 2009, Pages 1702-1704

  Daar, Judith F ^a,b   Brzyski, Robert G ^c  

^a Whittier Law School   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COUNSELING; DIAGNOSIS; EDITORIAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ETHICS; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC DISORDER; GENETIC SCREENING; HUMAN; HYPERTROPHIC CARDIOMYOPATHY; INFERTILITY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; ONCOGENE; OOCYTE; POLICY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERM DONOR; DONOR; DONOR SELECTION; FEMALE; MALE; NOTE; SPERMATOZOON; STANDARD;

DONOR SELECTION; FEMALE; GENETIC SCREENING; HUMANS; MALE; OOCYTES; SPERMATOZOA; TISSUE DONORS;

EID: 70350724500     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2009.1508     Document Type: Editorial

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