Medical ethics and human reproduction: Scientists predict unbalanced future with sex selection
| Autor: | K N Laland, J Kumm, M W Feldman, S R Brennan |
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| Rok vydání: | 1994 |
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Letter
business.industry media_common.quotation_subject General Engineering General Medicine Morality Sex preselection Developmental psychology Human reproduction Humans General Earth and Planetary Sciences Medicine Ethics Medical Sex Preselection Sex Ratio Selection Genetic Sex selection business Sex ratio Medical ethics General Environmental Science media_common |
| Zdroj: | BMJ. 308:536-536 |
| ISSN: | 1468-5833 0959-8138 |
| Popis: | EDITOR, - The recent opening of a gender clinic in north London and the publication of a report of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority1 have focused attention on the morality of selecting the sex of children. The resulting debate has taken place in the absence of valid scientific data on the genetic and demographic consequences of this practice. Preliminary studies have found that parental preferences at such clinics around the world can be strongly biased towards sons.*RF 2-4*. We report the results of a theoretical study that establishes that substantial genetic distortions of the primary sex ratio (the sex ratio at conception) may result if parents consistently prefer sons to daughters.5 If parents are … |
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