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Gender Selection Overview

Gender selection has become a popular option for couples desiring to choose the sex of their children. HRC offers gender selection, sometimes referred to as “family balancing.” Gender selection is often used to reduce the possibility of transmitting sex-linked genetic diseases to an offspring in “at risk” couples. Other couples want to experience the joy of raising both a male and female child.

Using a process called Preimplantation Genetic Testing for Aneuploidy (PGT-A), we will evaluate the embryos for your IVF cycle. A few cells from the embryos and used to analyze the chromosomal makeup of the embryo, or the likelihood that the embryo will implant and thrive.  This same evaluation reveals whether the embryo is female or male. If the couple has specified which sex they would prefer, we can choose only to implant the embryos that are that gender.

Our couples have many reasons why they would choose gender selection. There are some genetic diseases that are linked to the gender of the child, so couples may choose to select a gender where that disease is unlikely to develop.  In some cases, gender selection is an opportunity to reduce the risk of autism. Others would like to choose gender so they can have the experience of raising both genders of children, or for what we sometimes refer to as family balancing.

We realize that in some parts of the world, gender selection is illegal. This is not the case in the United States. Here at HRC, we believe it is every couple’s right to have this option. As the science of reproductive medicine advances, so do the capabilities of the doctors who practice it. Gender selection is one of the benefits of the advances in our medical technology that we are proud to offer here at HRC Fertility.

Gender Selection and Genetic Disease

Gender selection can help prevent the transmission of certain genetic diseases. Some of these genetic diseases are carried on the X or Y chromosome and are termed “sex-linked” genetic diseases. The genetic structure XX yields a female child while the XY arrangement produces a male.

Gender Selection Using PGT-A

Gender selection with PGT-A is conducted during an in vitro fertilization (IVF) cycle to determine the sex of the embryos. Only embryos of the desired sex are transferred to the uterus.  The success rate of gender selection rates approaches 100%.

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