Preimplantation genetic diagnosis

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 3, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 941-953

  Braude, Peter ^a   Pickering, Susan ^a   Flinter, Frances ^a   Ogilvie, Caroline Mackie ^a  

^a GUY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; DEVELOPMENT; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC DISORDER; GENETIC PROCEDURES; GENETIC RISK; HUMAN; OOCYTE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TERMINATION; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; REPRODUCTION; REPRODUCTIVE PROCEDURES; REVIEW; UTERUS;

ANEUPLOIDY; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; CLEAVAGE STAGE, OVUM; FEMALE; FORECASTING; GENETIC DISEASES, X-LINKED; HUMANS; OOCYTES; PREGNANCY; PREIMPLANTATION DIAGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; TRANSLOCATION, GENETIC;

EID: 0036894044     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg953     Document Type: Review

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