Health News from Medical News Today: Pre-implantation Genetic Diagnosis Can Permit The Birth Of Healthy Children To Women Carrying Mitochondrial DNA Disease

Health News from Medical News Today Latest Health News and Medical News posted throughout the day, every day. Pre-implantation Genetic Diagnosis Can Permit The Birth Of Healthy Children To Women Carrying Mitochondrial DNA Disease 31 May 2011, 8:00 am Dutch researchers have developed a test which predicts which mothers at risk of passing on mitochondrial genetic disease to their children are likely to have a healthy baby. Pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) can give women at risk of passing on a mitochondrial DNA disorder to their offspring a good chance of being able to give birth to an unaffected child, a researcher told the annual conference of the European Society of Human Genetics today (Monday). Dr... You are receiving this email because you subscribed to this feed at blogtrottr.com. If you no longer wish to receive these emails, you can unsubscribe from this feed.