The origin of genetic defects in the human and their detection in the preimplantation embryo

Human Reproduction Update

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 1995, Pages 201-215

  Delhanty, Joy D A ^a   Handyside, Alan H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b HAMMERSMITH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLASTOCYST; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CHROMOSOME DISORDER; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; KARYOTYPING; MALE; PATHOLOGY; PLOIDY; PREGNANCY; REVIEW; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ABNORMALITIES; BLASTOCYST; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; CHROMOSOME DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; KARYOTYPING; MALE; PLOIDIES; PREGNANCY;

EID: 0029295123     PISSN: 13554786     EISSN: 14602369     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humupd/1.3.201     Document Type: Article

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