Selection of embryos by morphology is less effective than by a combination of aneuploidy testing and morphology observations

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 91, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 943-945

  Munné, Santiago ^a   Tomkin, Giles ^a   Cohen, Jacques ^a  

^a Reprogenetics LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANEUPLOIDY; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; EMBRYO (ANATOMY); HAPLOIDY; HUMAN; MEIOSIS; MORPHOLOGY; MOSAICISM; NATURAL SELECTION; POLYPLOIDY; PREIMPLANTATION EMBRYO; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANEUPLOIDY; EMBRYO TRANSFER; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; FEMALE; GENETIC SCREENING; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREGNANCY; PREIMPLANTATION DIAGNOSIS;

EID: 61349166481     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2007.06.082     Document Type: Article

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