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Does anyone know of a similar study but involving mothers instead of fathers?
by dvfjsdhgfv 5y ago
Does anyone know of a similar study but involving mothers instead of fathers?
- nightfly 5y agoIt's a lot more destructive to harvest eggs than sperm.
- aminozuur 5y agoFertility clinics harvest eggs from women every day. Some of those eggs could be donated for research. Example: Clinics harvests 12 eggs from a layd, 1 egg needed for IVF, IVF is succesful (baby born), lady is now happy to donate the remaining 11 eggs to science.
- jschwartzi 5y agoSome nitpicks: * IVF involves retrieval and then fertilization of eggs. There’s not usually leftover unfertilized eggs unless the woman is banking her eggs. * The success rates my partner and I have been quoted mean that we want to keep as many embryos as possible in case we need to try again. I think it would be really unethical to ask a woman to give up any good eggs or euploid embryos as they can be hard to get in some cases. The shots a woman has to give herself daily to stimulate follicle production are no joke. That would be a lot to put someone through purely for research. It’s not as simple as that. And it’s wishful thinking to expect any woman to do that.
- ultimape 5y agoI haven't found one specifically on autism. Most of the mothers' risk in offspring seems to be gestational factors during brain development stages, and later on impacts on milk. This gets close "Epigenetics in Families: Covariance between Mother and Child Methylation Patterns" https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7913850/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7913850/