One of the most frequently asked questions by patients undergoing oocyte donation treatment is: will the donor look like me? To answer this question, one of the terms we use is the anglicism “matching”, which means pairing or coinciding.
One of the most important stages in an egg donation process is to find the ideal donor for the patient. To do this, our team specialised in matching carries out a very rigorous search among all the donors to select only those who are compatible with the patient. When we talk about compatibility, we do so from a phenotypic point of view and from a genetic point of view.
HOW IS THE MATCHING BETWEEN DONOR AND RECIPIENT CARRIED OUT?
At Ovoclinic, we have a large pool of donors of different phenotypes and nationalities thanks to Ovobank, our own egg bank. Ovobank donors are girls between the ages of 18 and 33 who are in good health, both physically and psychologically. This is checked after undergoing a series of thorough gynaecological, psychological, serological and genetic examinations. In our clinics, we only accept 34% of the donors, those we consider suitable after passing the aforementioned tests.
Thanks to new technological advances and the study of the exome, more than 50,000 mutations in more than 2,000 genes can be analysed, which allows patients who wish to request this study to carry out the treatment with complete safety and confidence and thus fulfil the long-awaited dream of patients to start a family.
Another selection screening is carried out by Ovobank’s specialised team, which is responsible for phenotypic matching with the recipient patient and the donor. If patients wish, they can request the Genetic Compatibility Test (GCT), which allows the genetic information of the donor to be analysed with that of the recipient woman’s partner, with the aim of reducing the transmission of genetic diseases. This information will be compared by selecting the ideal donor, so that patient and donor do not share mutations in the same genes.
We know that ovodonation generates many doubts, so we invite you to have a first informative visit totally free of charge with our specialists.
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