Posted on 01/25/2010 8:50:06 AM PST by GonzoII
25th Jan 10 — About 40,000 women a year undergo in vitro fertilisation (IVF) in Britain and some 15,000 babies are born as a result, accounting for two per cent of all births. But new research shows IVF babies are more likely to suffer diseases such as diabetes and to become obese in later life, according to scientists who’ve found that these children’s DNA differs from that of their peers.
The discovery might also explain why IVF children are prone to low birth weight, defects and rare metabolic disorders.
Prof Carmen Sapienza, a geneticist at Temple University in Philadelphia, who jointly led the research, told The Sunday Times that “These epigenetic differences have the potential to affect embryonic development and foetal growth, as well as influencing long-term patterns of gene expression associated with increased risk of many human diseases”.
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Very sad.
Even sadder when you think of all the currently existing children who need to be adopted.
I was just a kid but I remember the first "test tube baby" being a big story in around 1978 or so. That's just about 30 years ago. Now this research that indicates increased incidence of diabetes and obesity in those concevied via IVF. Makes me wonder how, if at all, the so-called obesity epidemic of the 90s and 2000s correlates to this situation.
Makes you wonder what the effects are in the next generation, when IVF babies have their own babies, but are carrying altered DNA.
...what wickedness hath mankind wrought?
I remember reading an article, years ago, about the problems with cloning, and one of them was that the cloned animals got severely obese.
Maybe we think we know what we are doing, but we don't actually.
Hey, Newbie. Your last sentence puts you in the questionable category. FR doesn’t discriminate against ‘non-native’ people. I have two ‘non-native’ adoptees in my extended family. They are lovely.
I can’t open the link because of filters so if the article mentioned this I apologize. New information is coming out that is leading some to hypothesize that IV babies and children conceived with certain fertility drugs have a higher incident of autism. It is only a hypotheses (yes MSM often confuse theory with hypotheses) but the correlation is eye opening in the limited studies conducted thus far. Scientist have known for sometime the high correlation of autism to childern born with older parents. Recently more focused studies indicate older parents use of fertility methods that could attribute why older parents have children with higher rates of autism.
Ironic that your handle is enlightenedman, because your statement is the most idiotic statement I have ever seen on the free republic.
Was the diagnosis of autism around when our older generation was growing up? I don’t remember the term when I was young in the 50’s. I was just wondering if the condition is more prevelant now or maybe it was called something else when I was young?
...what wickedness hath mankind wrought?
Very obvious troll. Doesn't know about hyper-ovulation and embryo destruction - and seems to think Conservatism has a racial component.
“IVF is better than adoption in the long run for the conservative cause when you consider that most adoptees come from non-native stock.”
A baby is a baby is a baby. It doesn’t matter if it comes from outer Mongolia or Africa or Haiti.
Are you a troll newbie? If so, you’ll out yourself fast.
That said; am not disputing problems arising by IVF. . .just not in 'toto' so to speak; but think the 'en masse' approach questionable or should be.
Do you have any evidence that political leanings are genetic?
Why would you think that a child raised in a conservative home would be less likely to be a conservative simply because of their place of birth?
We're messing around too much with God's nature.
That’s a lot of dead people in the quest for children. Of course, if a woman was prone to miscarriage, we wouldn’t chastise her for trying to have a child just because of how many of her children died.
More important is the hundreds of thousands of children who are frozen to death in order to obtain the “select 40,000” that are given the opportunity to live.
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