Balanced complex chromosome rearrangements: Reproductive aspects. A review

American Journal of Medical Genetics, Part A

Volumn 158 A, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 947-963

  Madan, Kamlesh ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Balanced CCRs; Risks

Indexed keywords

CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CHROMOSOME DUPLICATION; CHROMOSOME REARRANGEMENT; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; CONGENITAL DISORDER; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE INFERTILITY; GENE TRANSLOCATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC SCREENING; GROWTH RETARDATION; HUMAN; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; KARYOTYPE; MALE INFERTILITY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PHENOTYPE; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT ABORTION; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPEECH DISORDER; SPERMATOGENESIS;

CHROMOSOME DELETION; CHROMOSOME DUPLICATION; CHROMOSOME INVERSION; FEMALE; GENETIC COUNSELING; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY; MALE; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; TRANSLOCATION, GENETIC;

EID: 84858998712     PISSN: 15524825     EISSN: 15524833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.a.35220     Document Type: Review

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