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Title Mitochondrial replacement techniques : ethical, social, and policy considerations / Anne Claiborne, Rebecca English, Jeffrey Kahn, editors ; Committee on the Ethical and Social Policy Considerations of Novel Techniques for Prevention of Maternal Transmission of Mitochondrial DNA Diseases, Board on Health Sciences Policy, Institute of Medicine, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Published Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, [2016]

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Description 1 online resource (1 PDF file (xvi, 184 pages)) : illustrations
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Contents Introduction -- Science and policy context -- Do ethical, social, and policy considerations preclude MRT? -- Regulation and oversight of MRT in humans
Summary Mitochondrial replacement techniques (MRTs) are designed to prevent the transmission of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) diseases from mother to child. While MRTs, if effective, could satisfy a desire of women seeking to have a genetically related child without the risk of passing on mtDNA disease, the technique raises significant ethical and social issues. It would create offspring who have genetic material from two women, something never sanctioned in humans, and would create mitochondrial changes that could be heritable (in female offspring), and therefore passed on in perpetuity. The manipulation would be performed on eggs or embryos, would affect every cell of the resulting individual, and once carried out this genetic manipulation is not reversible. Mitochondrial Replacement Techniques considers the implications of manipulating mitochondrial content both in children born to women as a result of participating in these studies and in descendants of any female offspring. This study examines the ethical and social issues related to MRTs, outlines principles that would provide a framework and foundation for oversight of MRTs, and develops recommendations to inform the Food and Drug Administration's consideration of investigational new drug applications
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes This activity was supported by Contract No. HHSP233201400020B/HHSP2337010 between the National Academy of Sciences and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this publication do not necessarily reflect the views of any organization or agency that provided support for the project
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Subject Reproductive technology -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States
Reproductive technology -- Government policy -- United States
Mitochondrial DNA -- Abnormalities -- United States
Mitochondrial pathology -- United States
Medical ethics -- United States
Mitochondrial DNA.
Mitochondrial Replacement Therapy -- ethics
Mitochondrial Diseases -- prevention & control
DNA, Mitochondrial
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- General.
MEDICAL -- Clinical Medicine.
MEDICAL -- Diseases.
MEDICAL -- Evidence-Based Medicine.
MEDICAL -- Internal Medicine.
Mitochondrial DNA
Medical ethics.
Mitochondrial DNA -- Abnormalities.
Mitochondrial pathology.
Reproductive technology -- Moral and ethical aspects.
United States.
Form Electronic book
Author Claiborne, Anne B., editor.
English, Rebecca A., editor.
Kahn, Jeffrey P., editor.
Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Committee on the Ethical and Social Policy Considerations of Novel Techniques for Prevention of Maternal Transmission of Mitochondrial DNA Diseases, issuing body.
ISBN 9780309388702
0309388708
9780309388719
0309388716
0309388732
9780309388733