Comparison of requirements of research ethics committees in 11 European countries for a non-invasive interventional study: Table 1

autopsies and organ retention.Parents should be provided with full information and not be coerced into accepting an autopsy examination, and these discussions should be with an appropriately trained professional.Our study provides important information for parents.If a termination has been carried out because of anomalies detected by ultrasound scan, by declining an autopsy, parents will remain ignorant of information that might change the recurrence risk in one in four cases and have a one in 13 chance for missing confirmation of a high (one in four) recurrence risk.We thank CA Boyd for advice and reading the manuscript and S Gould and C Bowker (paediatric pathologists), A Roberts (specialist genetics nurse), S Hanson (data systems manager), and all the staff in the Oxford Prenatal Diagnosis Unit for help and for providing information.