Read the case at:
http://sciencecases.lib.buffalo.edu/cs/files/genetic_selection.pdf
Answer question 10 (required), and your choice of at least 3 additional questions.
- How could baby Sally inherit Fanconi anemia even though neither parent suffers from it?
- What other illnesses or developmental disabilities can be inherited in this way?
- What are the odds that the Shannon’s second child would also have this disease?
- What are the basic processes of IVF and PGD?
- What risks are involved in this whole procedure?
- How could a sibling’s blood help cure Sally?
- How could PGD be used to create that sibling?
- What is so unusual about the PGD proposed by the Shannons?
- What are some ethical issues related to the use of IVF? What are some ethical issues related to
the use of PGD? What do you think about those issues? - What do you think the research team should do? What should the Shannons do?