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Competing interests None.
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Provenance and peer review Commissioned; internally peer reviewed.
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↵i I think it is particularly important to appreciate, as Sparrow points out, that in vitro multi-generational human genetics does not help the project of having genetically-related offspring. This is a technology that, when used in reproduction, is likely only to serve the goal of producing genetically modified infants, frequently or exclusively in hopes of achieving genetic enhancement.
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↵ii For the purposes of this article, I am focusing on the specific genetic modification of the nuclear DNA of human germ cells or the cells from which germ cells are derived.
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↵iii Oxford Dictionaries Online: http://oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/american_english/eugenics?q=eugenics
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↵iv Oxford Dictionaries Online defines breeding as: the activity of controlling the mating and production of offspring of animals (http://oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/american_english/breeding)
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↵v Oxford Dictionaries Online defines a human being as: a man, woman, or child of the species Homo sapiens, distinguished from other animals by superior mental development, power of articulate speech, and upright stance. (http://oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/american_english/human-being?q=human+being)
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