Will Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis – PGD basically wipe out genetic disorders?
We can’t cure the person with a genetic disorder, but we can hopefully stop genetic disorder from being transferred throughout generations and we have the opportunity to greatly reduce the number of children born with these devastating diseases. For instance, the general population has a 2% incidence of breast cancer. Half of these are accidental and half are genetic. PGD will help us to greatly reduce, if not completely eliminate the incidence of breast cancer by half, because we will prevent the transfer of the gene that causes genetic based breast cancer.
