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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You would only do PGD if there was a 1/4 risk.  Not just to screen out carrier status.  CF is a recessive disease.  Carriers are overall healthy (there are only like incredibly rare exceptions to this).  Also newsflash, we all carry several recessive diseases, some of which can be screened for, a lot of which can't.  So as long as egg donor isn't a carrier for something your husband carries, it's not an issue.  Speak to a genetic counselor.[/quote]

This. If your husband or sperm donor is not a carrier, it's not an issue. If husband/sperm donor is a carrier, though, I would not.

For example, I got the full Ashkenazi Jewish panel. I am a carrier for Tay-Sachs disease, which was not a surprise as I had two cousins who died from it decades ago before the disease was widely known. So DH got tested but he is not a carrier, so we were fine to TTC without doing PGS. My sister also was tested when they were TTC and was not a carrier so they did not bother to test her husband (half Jewish).[/quote]

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