Selecting Embryos for IQ, Height Not Currently Practical: Study

November 21, 2019

(The Scientist) – espite advances in understanding the combined effects of multiple genes on complex traits in humans, efforts to choose embryos based on the likelihood of their carrying such traits would be unlikely to meet with much success, researchers report today (November 21) in Cell. It has been possible for decades for would-be parents to conceive embryos through in vitro fertilization, then have the embryos tested for particular disease-causing gene variants, a procedure called preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD).