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Screening gamete donors for cystic fibrosis status
Author(s) -
Findlay Ian,
Forbes Kevin L,
Parker Malcolm H
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2000.tb125695.x
Subject(s) - cystic fibrosis , gamete , medicine , disease , immunology , andrology , sperm
Gamete donors are currently not tested for cystic fibrosis, even though carriers have a very high risk of producing children with the disease. We recommend that gamete donors be routinely tested for cystic fibrosis. Similar arguments exist for antenatal screening for cystic fibrosis.