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Human Reproduction 2006 21(4):1100; doi:10.1093/humrep/dei446
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© The Author 2006. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

Letter to the editor

Mirror exchange of donor gametes should also accommodate scientific research

Boon Chin Heng1,3 and Guo Qing Tong2

1 National University of Singapore and 2 Genome Institute of Singapore, Genome, Singapore

3 To whom correspondence should be addressed at: National University of Singapore, 5 Lower Kent Ridge Road, 119074 Singapore. E-mail: denhenga@nus.edu.sg

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Sir,

We read with great interest the article by Pennings (2005)Go who proposed a system of mirror exchange in gamete donation. The proposed scheme, however, fails to take into account the overwhelming demand for donor gametes in scientific research; particularly, somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) for the derivation of patient-specific stem cells (Hwang et al., 2004Go, . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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