Comments on: Pre-Implantation Genetic Diagnosis Approved in the UK

By: Kelly

Kelly — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 04:28:49 +0000

Hi I’m from NZ and my husband and I have been approved for PGD for HNPCC. We were told today that the lab in Australia think it could be took difficult to find a good embryo as screening could be difficult as there are only 3 markers to test from. Please could someone tell me if after the approval of PGD in Britain in 2006 whether families have gone through with PGD for HNPCC and how successful it was as not a lot is known about it here in New Zealand? Thank you very much

By: Genetics and Health » Genetics and Health Exclusive: A Personal Experience with PGD

Wed, 28 Jun 2006 22:40:39 +0000

[...] A wider range of diseases for pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) of embryos was recently approved by the UK Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority. Many families affected by breast cancer, hereditary non-polyposis colon cancer, and other diseases available for screening were tremendously relieved. It’s hard for most of us to understand what it’s like to be faced with the prospect of having children with severe debilitating illness so if we can become more informed, the more sympathetic we can be of these families’ plight. [...]

By: Genetics and Health » Not All Genetic Tests are Prenatal

Genetics and Health » Not All Genetic Tests are Prenatal — Tue, 16 May 2006 08:41:15 +0000

[...] With recent news of the UK approving more uses of pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) to identify embryos carrying the BRCA and HNPCC genes, prenatal genetic testing must also be on everyone’s minds. Perhaps now is a good time for a reminder that not all genetic testing involves eggs, sperm, embryos, and fetuses. [...]

By: Genetics and Health » Don’t Rain On My Gene Parade

Genetics and Health » Don’t Rain On My Gene Parade — Fri, 12 May 2006 12:27:54 +0000

[...] It’s been done before – BRCA1, BRCA2, HNPCC are all genes which significantly increase the risk of breast, ovarian, and colon cancer. But Stuart Baker, of the US National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, and Jaakko Kaprio, a genetic epidemiologist from the University of Helsinki, aren’t so sure there are too many more of these genes to be found. They have three reasons for why they think projects like the Cancer Genome Atlas won’t succeed: [...]