Donor Screening
Initially the donors are selected by the Nordic Cryobank staff, based on a number of parameters:
Sperm Quality
Age
Personality
Education
4 Generation Family Health History
Further screening includes blood and urine analysis:
Chemistry Panel
Complete Blood Count
Urinalysis
ABO-Rh Blood typing
HIV
HTLV I/II
Hepatitis B Surface Antigen
Hepatitis B Core Antibody
Hepatitis C Viral Antibody
Syphilis (RPR)
CMV IgG/IgM
Chlamydia
Gonorrheae
The genetic testing we do includes the following:
4 generation family medical history, which is reviewed by a
trained genetic specialist or a medical doctor (all donors)
Cystic Fibrosis screening for 33-86 mutations in the Cystic Fibrosis gene (all caucasian donors)
Chromosome analysis (all donors)
Thalassemia (all donors). An HPLC analysis is done to detect this indirectly. Please contact us if you would like to have your donor genetically screened for carrier status. Less than 1 in 1000 are carriers for this disease in Northern Europe.
Tay-Sachs disease (donors with Ashkenazi Jewish or French Canadian ancestry)
Canavan disease disease (donors with Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry)
Familial Dysautonomia (donors with Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry)
Fanconi Anemia type C (donors with Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry)
Gaucher disease (donors with Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry)
Niemann-Pick type A disease (donors with Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry)
Sickle Cell Disease (donors with African ancestry are genetically screened). For all donors an HPLC analysis is done to detect this indirectly.
Canavan disease disease (donors with Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry)
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