Reproductive Genetics

Kehoe - Reproductive genetics
£80.00
£80.00
Authors/editors: Sean Kehoe, Lyn Chitty and Tessa Homfray
ISBN: 978-1-906985-16-5
Page count: 232
Publisher: RCOG Press
Publication year: 2009

Great progress has been made in the field of genetics within the past decade. This, combined with our growing knowledge, has impacted on this important area with interesting consequences. The ability to identify genetic defects before implantation, to diagnose fetal abnormalities and to introduce screening programmes means that genetic testing now has a major role in preventive medicine. These topics are discussed in detail in the book. In parallel with these advances, other aspects that cannot be ignored, such as education of the public and the potential ethical dilemmas that may arise by virtue of these new methodologies, are raised and discussed in this volume, which is based on the 57th RCOG Study Group and includes a set of consensus views from the expert participants.

Table of contents:
  1. Genetic aetiology of infertility
  2. Disorders of sex development
  3. Preimplantation genetic diagnosis: current practice and future possibilities
  4. Ethical aspects of saviour siblings: procreative reasons and the treatment of children
  5. Epigenetics, assisted reproductive technologies and growth restriction
  6. Fetal stem cell therapy
  7. Prenatal gene therapy
  8. Ethical aspects of stem cell therapy and gene therapy
  9. Fetal dysmorphology: the role of the geneticist in the fetal medicine unit in targeting diagnostic tests
  10. Fetal karyotyping: what should we be offering and how?
  11. Non-invasive prenatal diagnosis: the future of prenatal genetic diagnosis?
  12. Non-invasive prenatal diagnosis for fetal blood group status
  13. Selective termination of pregnancy and preimplantation genetic diagnosis: some ethical issues in the interpretation of the legal criteria
  14. Implementation and auditing of new genetics and tests: translating genetic tests into practice in the NHS
  15. New advances in prenatal genetic testing: the parent perspective
  16. Informed consent: what should we be doing?
  17. Consensus views arising from the 57th Study Group: Reproductive Genetics

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