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Andrew Thomson
London Women’s Clinic
Who can benefit from PGT?
Andrew Thomson explains that people who have specific genetic diseases can benefit from Preimplantation Genetic Testing (PGT).
Transcript
PGT is aimed at patients who have a specific need for it. So those that know they have a specific genetic disease such as cystic fibrosis or for those that have a clinical history of recurrent miscarriage, recurrent implantation failure, they're of advanced maternal age so that they may, if they do get pregnant, they're at higher risk of having a miscarriage or a baby like Down syndrome. Things like that.