Anonymous donor

Professor Michael Parker, Chair of Genomics England's Ethics Advisory Committee and speaker at the Progress Educational Trust's FREE-to-attend public event 'Whole Genome Sequencing at Birth: What Research Can, and Should, Be Done with a Baby's Genome?', being held online on Wednesday 19 January 2022

Professor Neena Modi, President of the British Medical Association and speaker at the Progress Educational Trust's FREE-to-attend public event 'Whole Genome Sequencing at Birth: What Research Can, and Should, Be Done with a Baby's Genome?', being held online on Wednesday 19 January 2022

WHOLE GENOME SEQUENCING AT BIRTH
WHAT RESEARCH CAN, AND SHOULD, BE DONE WITH A BABY'S GENOME?
FREE-to-attend online event • 19 January 2022 • Register HERE

Glossary Item

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Anonymous donor

A gamete donor whose identity is not known to the recipient or to the resulting donor-conceived person. Most gamete donors who donated before 1 April 2005 at licensed clinics in the UK are anonymous. Some anonymous donors have chosen to reregister as identifiable donors.

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Canadian doctor loses licence for using own sperm in IVF	1 July 2019	News
Canadian citizenship quirk leaves surrogate-born twins stateless	7 January 2019	News
New crime of 'fertility fraud' proposed in Indiana	3 December 2018	News
Anonymous gamete donation to be banned in Ireland	16 July 2018	News
Personal genetic testing and the implications for the donor conception community	26 February 2018	Comment
Woman uses dead son's sperm for IVF grandchildren	19 February 2018	News
Same-sex parental support case raises consent issues	18 December 2017	News
Shared motherhood IVF for lesbian couples is gaining acceptance in the UK	27 November 2017	Comment
Embryo adoption in the US: Any lessons for the UK?	6 November 2017	Comment
Dutch court rules donor families can test fertility doctor's DNA	5 June 2017	News
Dutch woman tracks her sperm donor using DNA bank	5 June 2017	News
Donor-conceived people do benefit from being told about their conception	30 May 2017	Comment
Prohibiting sperm donor anonymity in the US and possible effects on recruitment and compensation	3 April 2017	Comment
Going home and forgetting about it: a different perspective on donors and donor conception	27 March 2017	Comment
Donor anonymity comes to an end in Victoria, Australia	6 March 2017	News
Regulating the donor-conception industry in the US	27 February 2017	Comment
Twins but legal strangers: paradoxical but could we have expected more?	13 February 2017	Comment
Sperm shortage in New Zealand	19 September 2016	News
Online banking for UK sperm donors	5 September 2016	Comment
Theatre Review: Half of Me	8 August 2016	Review

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