Heavy personal ethics question

[eyepaddle]

Okay folks, this is sort of a "what would you do" scenario. Today I had confirmation of a youthful diagnosis of X-linked retinoschisis, this is a fairly uncommon genetic condition in which the two layers of the retina are separated (not torn though); it affects between 1 in 5000 to 1 in 25000 men. The average visual acuity is 20/70, sometimes it goes all the way to legally blind (or worse).

Alright, there's the setup, now for the conundrum, this is a disease linked to the X chromosome, the upshot is no child of mine could develop the disease; if I have only sons they can NOT be carriers and the disease is gone, however, if I have daughters they would have a 50/50 chance of being carriers. That is to say that any sons THEY might have would have a 50/50 shot of having this disease--which might cause blindness.

So now I know. What do I do with this information? Take my chances and hope for the best? Not have any children, and thus let the defect definitely drop out of the gene pool? (Please note, if I were an expectant father, I would not want to learn the sex of the baby until birth--so there are no ghastly "baby shopping" issues to contend with)

On the plus side, I am single and have no children, so this is sort of an academic endeavour.

Any thoughts y'all would care to offer are welcome.