Genes r us? Making sense of genetic and non-genetic relationships following anonymous donor insemination

Reproductive BioMedicine Online

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 719-726

  Blyth, Eric ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HUDDERSFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

anonymous sperm donation; DNA; donor linking; donor siblings

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC SCREENING; HUMAN; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL NETWORK; SPERM DONOR;

ADULT; ANONYMS AND PSEUDONYMS; COMMUNICATION; FAMILY; FEMALE; GENES; GENETICS; HUMANS; INSEMINATION, ARTIFICIAL, HETEROLOGOUS; MALE; PREGNANCY; SELF CONCEPT; SENSE OF COHERENCE; SIBLINGS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPERMATOZOA; TISSUE DONORS;

EID: 84862906183     PISSN: 14726483     EISSN: 14726491     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rbmo.2012.02.010     Document Type: Article

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