Still, as an expansion of IVF, patients who can benefit from PGS/PGD include: Those who have a family history of inherited disease Those who want prenatal sex discernment. This can be used to diagnose monogenic disorders with sex linkage. It can potentially be used for sex selection, wherein a fetus is aborted if having an undesired sex. Those who already have a child with an incurable disease and need compatible cells from a second healthy child to cure the first, resulting in a "saviour sibling" that matches the sick child in HLA type.
Still, as an expansion of IVF, patients who can benefit from PGS/PGD include: Those who have a family history of i,nherited disease Those who want prenatal sex discernment. This can be used to diagnose monogenic disorders with sex linkage. It can potentially be used for sex selection, wherein a fetus is aborted if having an undesired sex. Those who already have a child with an incurable disease and need compatible cells from a second healthy child to cure the first resulting in a "saviour sibling" that matches the sick child in HLA type.