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Re: the girl with three biological parents

Posted by Dante on Thursday, September 11 2014 at 7:32:37PM
In reply to Re: the girl with three biological parents posted by Theo on Thursday, September 11 2014 at 08:42:59AM

"I wonder why it was banned; looks like she turned out fine to me."

Because of the mitochondrial genetic diseases in some other cases. This girl appears to have ducked a bullet that took out several other kids.

"But there was concern about some of the babies.

"There was one early miscarriage, considering there were twelve pregnancies that is an expected number," says Cohen.

He and his team believed that miscarriage occurred because the foetus was missing an X chromosome.

"Then there was another twin pregnancy, where one [of the twins] was considered entirely normal and the other had a missing X chromosome.

"So that's two out of the small group of foetuses that was obtained from this procedure. This did worry us and we reported that in the literature and in our ethical and review board that oversees these procedures," he says.

At the time of birth, the other babies were all fine. A year or two later, another of the children was found to have "early signs of pervasive early developmental disorder which is a range of cognitive diseases which also includes autism." Cohen told me."


25% damage is pretty steep. And they haven't had the budget yet to follow up with others yet.

Though to me the real issue is when the cytoplasm donor asks for sole custody. ;p

Dante

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