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Sperm from donor with cancer-causing gene was used to conceive almost 200 children

A sperm donor carried a mosaic TP53 mutation that can cause Li-Fraumeni syndrome and fathered at least 197 children, many facing very high lifetime cancer risk.

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Sperm bank sold man's cancer-linked genes across Europe DW 12/10/2025

When the woman's phone began to ring one morning in June, she did not know that the news she would receive would hurtle her and her teenage daughter into a "tunnel" of medical appointments, tests and fear. On the other end of the line, she said, was the head of the fertility department at a Belgian clinic she had visited in 2011 to undergo fertility treatment, which at the time was not available to would-be single mothers in France.

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Sperm from donor with cancer-causing gene was used to conceive almost 200 children

Sperm bank sold man's cancer-linked genes across Europe DW 12/10/2025

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