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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Lots of people have that gene.  I would only be mildly upset about this.  It's forgivable.

I'd choose to have my own kids knowing this.  Strangers' DNA can also be problematic.

Would you rather that your kid have ten half-siblings they can find as grownups through Ancestry.com?

Forgive and move on.[/quote]

I am this PP and I just remembered that long after I had my first son, maybe my second son, my husband remembered to tell me that an ancestor male in his family was born with his heart totally reversed/mirror imaged but it all connected so he lived.  This came up during a discussing that a related cousin lost his first male child at birth due to a reversed heart that was too defective to survive birth (pre-ultrasound times).  I was a little miffed about finding out about this after the fact. But it wouldn't have changed my decision.  We had some kind of DNA test done for the first baby but not amnio.  And nuchal fold screening for the second.  The doctor said don't get tests unless you know actions you would take with adverse information.  I thought that was wise.

One sickle cell gene to me is just info to be known. I sure wouldn't do IVF and embryo picking over it.[/quote]

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