The first British baby genetically selected to not carry the breast cancer gene born London. Both mother and child were subjected to treatment preimplantation diagnosis (PGD) that prevented parents transmit the gene (BRCA1) predisposing to the disease.
's father carries the gene small and three generations of female relatives were diagnosed with the tumor. Without the intervention of science, she would have had between 50 and 80 percent chance of developing it.
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