"I prefer a child with...": designer babies, another controversial patent in the arena of direct-to-consumer genomics

Genetics in Medicine

Volumn 15, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 923-924

  Sterckx, Sigrid ^a   Cockbain, Julian ^b   Howard, Heidi C ^c,d   Borry, Pascal ^e  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b Consultant Patent Attorney ^*  (Belgium)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITÉ PAUL SABATIER   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DONOR SELECTION; GAMETE; GENETIC PROCEDURES; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETIC SELECTION; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PATENT; PHENOTYPE; PROGENY;

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; DIRECTED TISSUE DONATION; GENETIC ENHANCEMENT; GENETIC TESTING; GENOMICS; HUMANS; MALE; OOCYTE DONATION; PATENTS AS TOPIC; PHENOTYPE; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED; SPERMATOZOA; TISSUE DONORS;

EID: 84890105303     PISSN: 10983600     EISSN: 15300366     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/gim.2013.164     Document Type: Note

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