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Genetic tests on eggs. First pregnancy in Italy

An Italian woman affected by the disease Charcot-Marie-Tooth will make the world a healthy child through preconception diagnosis, a technique for prenatal diagnosis is not made on the embryo (a practice forbidden by law in our country 40) but on ovulation. The woman had another child, who is now five years, also born perfectly thanks to preimplantation diagnosis in a time when our country that was not prohibited. After the approval of Law 40, however, the woman, who is currently the third month of pregnancy, had to go to Turkey to try to have a second child.

To realize the dream of the future mother were, however, the Italian biologist Francesco Fiorentino, director of the Genome Laboratory in Rome, and Ermanno Greek director of the Center of the European Hospital Capitoline assisted procreation through preconception genetic diagnosis (PCGD). The technique was illustrated on the January issue of the journal “Prenatal Diagnosis” and provides for the analysis is conducted on polar body, a cell that is produced during ovulation and can give information on the genetic heritage of women. In this way all the embryos will be healthy as obtained from egg cells do not show any anomaly.

I am already 80 couples waiting for this kind of analysis that will greatly limit the phenomenon, increasingly, the procreative tourism and that is reliable like the preimplantation genetic diagnosis conducted on embryos. However, the technique allows to detect only the presence of genetic and chromosomal abnormalities of maternal origin and remains unresolved the problem of couples infertile carriers of inherited diseases for which no hope remains contained in the amendment of Law 40. Currently you can diagnose through preconception genetic diagnosis, a number of diseases including Huntington’s disease, fragile X syndrome and the fibrosis cystic.

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