Reproductive Choices for Women with Mitochondrial Mutations

ABSTRACT Mitochondrial mutations cause debilitating health conditions, and assisted reproduction broadens novel treatment options in women with mitochondrial mutations to reduce the risk of the mutations in their offspring. This editorial elaborates on the Mitochondrial Donation Programme licensed in the United Kingdom as a risk-reduction fertility treatment option for women suffering from mitochondrial mutation. This is the first licensed fertility treatment programme for women with mitochondrial mutation in the world, followed by the Australian parliament licensing it, and it is currently in the process of setting up the programme.