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Is it acceptable to contact an anonymous egg donor to facilitate diagnostic genetic testing for the donor-conceived child?
- Correspondence to Professor Anneke M Lucassen, Faculty of Medicine, Clinical Ethics and Law, University of Southampton, Southampton so165ya, UK; a.m.lucassen{at}soton.ac.uk
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Is it acceptable to contact an anonymous egg donor to facilitate diagnostic genetic testing for the donor-conceived child?
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- Received December 14, 2018
- Revised March 11, 2019
- Accepted March 26, 2019
- First published June 12, 2019.
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July 01, 2019
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