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Polygenic Risk, Polygenic Scores, Polygenic Indices: What Are They? What Should Be Done with Them?
This episode of the Progress Educational Trust (PET) podcast discusses the science and ethics of PGT-P – a controversial form of preimplantation genetic testing that uses polygenic scores, rather than using more traditional forms of genomic data.
The discussion – which originally took place at the PET Annual Conference – is chaired by Dr Philip Ball (science writer and broadcaster), with contributions from:
⚫ Dr Emma Meaburn (Behavioural Geneticist at Birkbeck University of London)
⚫ Dr Dorit Barlevy (Senior Researcher at Baylor College of Medicine)
⚫ Professor Angus Clarke (Emeritus…
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