Preimplantation genetic screening in older mothers

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 357, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 61-63

  Collins, John A ^a,b  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANEUPLOIDY; BIRTH RATE; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EDITORIAL; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENETIC DISORDER; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC SCREENING; HUMAN; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; LIVE BIRTH; MATERNAL AGE; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; X CHROMOSOME LINKED DISORDER;

EID: 34347383981     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMe078076     Document Type: Editorial

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