Patient interest in and clinician reservations on polygenic embryo screening: a qualitative study of stakeholder perspectives.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

We explored and compared perspectives of reproductive endocrinology and infertility specialists (REIs) and in vitro fertilization (IVF) patients regarding polygenic embryo screening (PES), a new type of preimplantation screening that estimates the genetic chances of developing polygenic conditions and traits in the future.

Methods

Qualitative thematic analysis of semi-structured interviews with US-based REIs and IVF patients.

Results

Clinicians and patients often held favorable views of screening embryos for physical or psychiatric conditions, though clinicians tended to temper their positive attitudes with specific caveats. Clinicians also expressed negative views about screening embryos for traits more frequently than patients, who generally held more positi

SUBMITTER: Barlevy D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11143162 | biostudies-literature | 2024 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature