Custom-made medicine: preimplantation genetic diagnosis

Sperling, K.

Zeitschrift für Arztliche Fortbildung und Qualitatssicherung 100(9-10): 666-672; Discussion 676, 724

2006


ISSN/ISBN: 1431-7621
PMID: 17269502
Document Number: 603848
Who wants Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis (PGD), who rejects it? The implications resulting from biological facts and legal regulations are addressed here. It is discussed under which conditions the restrictions of the Embryo Protection Act (Embryonenschutzgesetz, EschG) should be relaxed in order to be able to perform assisted reproduction technologies in Germany under international quality standards and also PGD in cases of stringent medical-genetic conditions.

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