Non-invasive imaging of human embryos before embryonic genome activation predicts development to the blastocyst stage

Nature Biotechnology

Volumn 28, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1115-1121

  Wong, Connie C ^a   Loewke, Kevin E ^a,b,e   Bossert, Nancy L ^c   Behr, Barry ^a   De Jonge, Christopher J ^c   Baer, Thomas M ^d   Pera, Renee A Reijo ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Auxogyn Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED IMAGE ANALYSIS; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; GENE EXPRESSION ANALYSIS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HUMAN EMBRYO; IN-VITRO; NON-INVASIVE IMAGING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TIME LAPSE IMAGES;

IMAGE ANALYSIS;

GENE EXPRESSION;

ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; BLASTOMERE; CELL DIVISION; CYTOKINESIS; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYONIC GENOME ACTIVATION; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HUMAN; HUMAN EMBRYO; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MITOSIS; MORULA; PHENOTYPE; PREIMPLANTATION EMBRYO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ZONA PELLUCIDA;

ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATION; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BLASTOCYST; CYTOKINESIS; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MITOSIS; MODELS, GENETIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77957938684     PISSN: 10870156     EISSN: 15461696     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nbt.1686     Document Type: Article

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