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[ldquo]I prefer a child with [hellip][rdquo]: designer babies, another controversial patent in the arena of direct-to-consumer genomics : Genetics in Medicine : Nature Publishing Group

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[ldquo]I prefer a child with [hellip][rdquo]: designer babies, another controversial patent in the arena of direct-to-consumer genomics : Genetics in Medicine : Nature Publishing Group

“I prefer a child with …”: designer babies, another controversial patent in the arena of direct-to-consumer genomics

Genetics in Medicine
(2013)
doi:10.1038/gim.2013.164
Received
Accepted
Published online
In December 2009, claiming priority from an earlier US patent application filed in December 2008, the Californian direct-to-consumer genetic testing company 23andMe filed US Patent Application Serial No. 12/592950. A Notice of Allowance for this case was issued by the US Patent and Trademark Office in June 2013, and it will issue as US Patent No. 8543339 on 24 September 2013. It contains claims to a computer system and to a computer program, but our focus here is on the patent’s claims to a method for gamete donor selection:
“A method for gamete donor selection 1, comprising (i) receiving a specification including a phenotype of interest that can be present in a hypothetical offspring; (ii) receiving a genotype of a recipient and a plurality of genotypes of a respective plurality of donors; (iii) using one or more computer processors coupled to one or more memories configured to provide one or more computer processors with instructions to determine statistical information including probabilities of observing the phenotype of interest resulting from different combinations of the genotype of the recipient and genotypes of the plurality of donors; and (iv) identifying a preferred donor among the plurality of donors, based at least in part on the statistical information determined, including comparing the probabilities of observing the phenotype of interest resulting from different combinations of the genotype of the recipient and the genotypes of the plurality of donors to identify the preferred donor.”

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