Prenatal and Preimplantation Diagnosis The Burden of Choice
This book aims to expand the awareness and understanding of the emotional sequelae of prenatal/preimplantation diagnosis, prenatal decision-making, pregnancy interruption for fetal anomaly, multifetal reduction for high-order multifetal pregnancies, and p
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Prenatal and Preimplantation Diagnosis
Joann Paley Galst • Marion S. Verp Editors
Prenatal and Preimplantation Diagnosis The Burden of Choice
Editors Joann Paley Galst, PhD New York, NY, USA
Marion S. Verp, MD Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology The University of Chicago Chicago, IL, USA Department of Human Genetics The University of Chicago Chicago, IL, USA
ISBN 978-3-319-18910-9 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-18911-6
ISBN 978-3-319-18911-6
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This book is dedicated to my 3-Ds who have influenced my life in immeasurable ways. JPG To my children and grandchildren whose love and support have meant everything. May they always have choices. MSV
Preface
In the past, a woman became pregnant and gave birth to a baby, navigating the pregnancy with little or no information about the fetus and unaware of problems that might be present until after delivery. More recently, thanks to advances in genetics, it has become possible to sequence individual human genomes and detect in a preimplanted embryo or a fetus the presence or absence of not only entire chromosomes but also single nucleotide variations. We have entered an era of rapidly expanding options for noninvasive prenatal screening and testing. Safe, reliable, and inexpensive screening is now available to women early in pregnancy as an alternative to invasive procedures such as amniocentesis and chorionic villus sampling. As a result of the availability of multiple options for prenatal information gathering, women and their partners are increasingly faced with decisions regarding whether to undergo preimplantation or prenatal screening and if so, which methods to choose. Screening b
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