Twenty years on from the first pregnancies after preimplantation genetic diagnosis, Alan Handyside argues that informed prospective parents are largely good guides to the use of the thriving technology.
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Alan Handyside has a patent application for a method of analysing SNP data from single cells, and the clinic at the London Bridge Fertility, Gynaecology and Genetics Centre where he works has a private lab (Bridge Genoma) for PGD testing. He is also an unpaid consultant with Reprogenetics, a PGD-testing lab in West Orange, New Jersey, USA.
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Handyside, A. Let parents decide. Nature 464, 978–979 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/464978a
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