Embryo screening for tissue matching.
Parents with children who need a hematopoietic stem cell transplant are increasingly using preimplantation genetic diagnosis to have a well-matched sibling donor. Preimplantation genetic diagnosis may ethically be used for this purpose even if the resulting child is not at risk of inheritable disease.
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