Advice to Human About Production
Currently "reproductive" consulting services are available that will fertilize an egg in a Petrie dish and
after it reaches the blastomere stage of 8 cells, they can sample the DNA from one of the cells and
analyze it so that a baby is not born with defects. My assumption is that anyone would routinely
undergo such a procedure before producing a human baby with anyone. My advice to anyone having
children today is to pay the $10,000 for this procedure simply because it is cheap insurance.
Anyone who is going to spend the hundreds of thousands of dollars that it takes to raise a child and yet
does not invest in PGD (Pre-implantation Genetic Diagnosis) is being penny wise and pound foolish, in
my opinion. Anyone who cannot afford the $10,000 simply cannot afford to have children, in my humble
opinion.
Wikipedia defines PGD:
In medicine and (clinical) genetics preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) (or also known as Embryo
Screening) refers to procedures that are performed on embryos prior to implantation, sometimes even
on oocytes prior to fertilization. PGD is considered an alternative to prenatal diagnosis. Its main
advantage is that it avoids selective pregnancy termination as the method makes it highly likely
that the baby will be free of the disease under consideration.
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Related keywords: PGD, genetic defect, prenatal diagnosis, genetic disease, X-linked disorder, genetic
mutation, reproductive medicine, assisted reproduction, AST, inherited diseases, sex-related genetic
disorders, birth defect, birth defect prevention, chromosomal disorders, single gene defects,
single-gene defects, hemophilia, fragile X syndrome, neuromuscular dystrophy, Rett's syndrome,
incontinentia pigmenti, pseudohyperparathyroidism, vitamin D resistant rickets, rickets, cystic fibrosis,
Tay-Sachs disease, sickle cell anemia, Huntington's disease, chromosomal translocation, chromosomal
inversion, chromosomal deletion, in vitro fertilization, IVF, amniocentesis, chorionic villus sampling, CVS,
intracytoplasmic sperm injection, ICSI, polar body biopsy, blastocyst biopsy, polymerase chain reaction,
PCR, fluorescence in situ hybridization, FISH, DNA amplification, comparative genomic hybridization,
CGH, interphase conversion.
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Currently "reproductive" consulting services are available that will fertilize an egg in a Petrie dish and
after it reaches the blastomere stage of 8 cells, they can sample the DNA from one of the cells and
analyze it so that a baby is not born with defects. My assumption is that anyone would routinely
undergo such a procedure before producing a human baby with anyone. My advice to anyone having
children today is to pay the $10,000 for this procedure simply because it is cheap insurance.
Anyone who is going to spend the hundreds of thousands of dollars that it takes to raise a child and yet
does not invest in PGD (Pre-implantation Genetic Diagnosis) is being penny wise and pound foolish, in
my opinion. Anyone who cannot afford the $10,000 simply cannot afford to have children, in my humble
opinion.
Wikipedia defines PGD:
In medicine and (clinical) genetics preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) (or also known as Embryo
Screening) refers to procedures that are performed on embryos prior to implantation, sometimes even
on oocytes prior to fertilization. PGD is considered an alternative to prenatal diagnosis. Its main
advantage is that it avoids selective pregnancy termination as the method makes it highly likely
that the baby will be free of the disease under consideration.
Donbot
Related keywords: PGD, genetic defect, prenatal diagnosis, genetic disease, X-linked disorder, genetic
mutation, reproductive medicine, assisted reproduction, AST, inherited diseases, sex-related genetic
disorders, birth defect, birth defect prevention, chromosomal disorders, single gene defects,
single-gene defects, hemophilia, fragile X syndrome, neuromuscular dystrophy, Rett's syndrome,
incontinentia pigmenti, pseudohyperparathyroidism, vitamin D resistant rickets, rickets, cystic fibrosis,
Tay-Sachs disease, sickle cell anemia, Huntington's disease, chromosomal translocation, chromosomal
inversion, chromosomal deletion, in vitro fertilization, IVF, amniocentesis, chorionic villus sampling, CVS,
intracytoplasmic sperm injection, ICSI, polar body biopsy, blastocyst biopsy, polymerase chain reaction,
PCR, fluorescence in situ hybridization, FISH, DNA amplification, comparative genomic hybridization,
CGH, interphase conversion.
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