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Clinicians also expressed negative views about screening embryos for traits more often than patients, who generally held more positive views. Most clinicians were either unwilling to discuss or offer polygenic embryo screening to patients or were willing to do so only under certain circumstances, while many patients expressed interest in polygenic embryo screening. Both sets of stakeholders envisioned multiple potential benefits or uses of polygenic embryo screening; the most common included selection and\/or prioritization of embryos, receipt of more information about embryos, and preparation for the birth of a predisposed or \u201caffected\u201d child. Both sets of stakeholders also raised multiple potential, interrelated concerns about polygenic embryo screening. The most common concerns among both sets of stakeholders included the potential for different types of \u201cbiases\u201d \u2013 most often in relation to selection of embryos with preferred genetic chances of traits \u2013, the probabilistic nature of polygenic embryo screening that can complicate patient counseling and\/or lead to excessive cycles of in vitro fertilization, and a lack of data from long-term prospective studies supporting the clinical use of polygenic embryo screening.<\/jats:p>\n                <\/jats:sec>\n                <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>Despite patients\u2019 interest in polygenic embryo screening, clinicians feel such screening is premature for clinical application. Though now embryos can be screened for their genetic chances of developing polygenic conditions and traits, many clinicians and patients maintain different attitudes depending on what is specifically screened, despite the blurry distinction between conditions and traits. Considerations raised by these stakeholders may help guide professional societies as they consider developing guidelines to navigate the uncertain terrain of polygenic embryo screening, which is already commercially available.<\/jats:p>\n                <\/jats:sec>\n                <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Funding Statement<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>This study was supported by the National Institutes of Health\u2019s Human Genome Research Institute [R01HG011711].<\/jats:p>\n                <\/jats:sec>\n                <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Disclosure Statement<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>SC is a paid consultant at MyHeritage.<\/jats:p>\n                <\/jats:sec>\n                <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Attestation Statement<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:list list-type=\"bullet\">\n                    <jats:list-item>\n                      <jats:p>Data regarding any of the subjects in the study has not been previously published unless specified.<\/jats:p>\n                    <\/jats:list-item>\n                    <jats:list-item>\n                      <jats:p>Data will be made available to the editors of the journal for review or query upon request.<\/jats:p>\n                    <\/jats:list-item>\n                  <\/jats:list>\n                <\/jats:sec>\n                <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Data Sharing Statement<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>Appendices 1 and 2 will be available as supplemental materials upon publication. De-identified coded transcript excerpts will be made available upon reasonable request to the corresponding author.<\/jats:p>\n                <\/jats:sec>\n                <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Capsule<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>Clinician and patient perspectives on polygenic embryo screening both diverge and overlap, inviting greater reflection on concepts of condition severity and health for the development of professional guidelines.<\/jats:p>\n                <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1101\/2023.10.12.23296961","type":"posted-content","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,10,13]],"date-time":"2023-10-13T12:15:14Z","timestamp":1697199314000},"source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":1,"title":["Divergence Between Clinician and Patient Perspectives on Polygenic Embryo Screening: A Qualitative Study"],"prefix":"10.64898","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-1478-0111","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Dorit","family":"Barlevy","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Ilona","family":"Cenolli","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Tiffany","family":"Campbell","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-3722-9514","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Remy","family":"Furrer","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-4227-685X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Meghna","family":"Mukherjee","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-2510-0174","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Kristin","family":"Kostick-Quenet","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-0188-2610","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Shai","family":"Carmi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-8586-338X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Todd","family":"Lencz","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-1933-9453","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Gabriel","family":"Lazaro-Munoz","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-6541-3904","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Stacey","family":"Pereira","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"54368","reference":[{"key":"2023101721351023000_2023.10.12.23296961v1.1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1038\/s41436-020-01019-3"},{"key":"2023101721351023000_2023.10.12.23296961v1.2","first-page":"591","article-title":"Improving reporting standards for polygenic scores in risk prediction studies","volume":"2021","year":"7849","journal-title":"Nature"},{"key":"2023101721351023000_2023.10.12.23296961v1.3","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1038\/s41467-019-11112-0"},{"key":"2023101721351023000_2023.10.12.23296961v1.4","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/j.cell.2019.10.033"},{"key":"2023101721351023000_2023.10.12.23296961v1.5","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Lencz T , Backenroth D , Granot-Hershkovitz E , Green A , Gettler K , Cho JH , et al. 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