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Expanded Carrier Screening: How Is It Used? What Are the Ethical Implications?
This episode of the Progress Educational Trust (PET) podcast discusses the use of expanded carrier screening to test prospective parents, and/or donors of sperm or eggs, for gene variants that could potentially lead to ill health in future children.
The discussion – which originally took place at the PET Annual Conference – is chaired by Sarah Norcross (Director of PET), with contributions from:
⚫ Sara Levene (Consultant Genetic Counsellor and founder of Guided Genetics)
⚫ Professor Jackson Kirkman-Brown (Science Lead at the Birmingham Women's Fertility Centre)
⚫ Dr Heidi Mertes (Chair of…
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