A good read on an individual being responsible based on his
genetic disposition and how it could potentially affect his
offspring’s children. From a scientific standpoint this would make
for a very interesting case study in population genetics.
Even in the article it states that some clinics limit the number of
recipients per donor I wonder why these clinics wouldn’t
just “farm” out the donors to different parts of the country to
increase the genetic variance? My 2 cents.
Rest of the article here:One of the Midwest's most prolific sperm donors may hold the key to understanding how genes affect our health.
It's a crisp fall day in Northville, Mich., a small suburb of Ann Arbor, and Kirk Maxey, a soft-spoken, graying baby boomer with a classic square jaw, is watching his 12-year-old son chase a soccer ball toward the goal. Maxey is doing what he does every Saturday, along with hundreds of other family men and women across the country, but he's not your average soccer dad. Maxey, 51, happens to be one of the most prolific sperm donors in the country. Between 1980 and 1994, he donated at a Michigan clinic twice a week. He's looked at the records of his donations, multiplied by the number of individual vials each donation produced, and estimated the success of each vial resulting in a pregnancy. By his own calculations, he concluded that he is the biological father of nearly 400 children, spread across the state and possibly the country.
http://www.newsweek.com/id/227104?GT1=43002
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