Journal article
Reclaiming “abnormal” embryos after preimplantation genetic testing for aneuploidy: patients’ perspectives on transferring embryos against institutional advice
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STUDY QUESTION:
How do patients make sense of and justify the transfer of embryos labelled “abnormal” by Preimplantation Genetic Testing for Aneuploidy (PGT-A)?
SUMMARY ANSWER:
Patients described a process of unlearning the authority of genetic testing and reframing their decisions as morally reasoned acts of reproductive agency—a reclaiming of possibility amid biomedical exclusion.
WHAT IS KNOWN ALREADY:
PGT-A is widely use... Expand abstract
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1093/hropen/hoag025
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- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- Journal:
- Human Reproduction Open More from this journal
- Volume:
- 2026
- Issue:
- 2
- Article number:
- hoag025
- Place of publication:
- England
- Publication date:
- 2026-03-26
- Acceptance date:
- 2026-02-27
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2399-3529
- Pmid:
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41978682
- Language:
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English
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2404416
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pubs:2404416
- Source identifiers:
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W7140851550
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2026-04-21
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- Copyright holder:
- Takahashi et al.
- Copyright date:
- 2026
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- © The Author(s) 2026. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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