Pre-implantation genetic testing for hereditary pulmonary arterial hypertension: Promise and caution

European Respiratory Journal

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1292-1293

  Hamid, Rizwan ^a   Loyd, James ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN RECEPTOR 2;

AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT DISORDER; BIRTH DEFECT; EDITORIAL; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC COUNSELING; GENETIC DISORDER; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC SCREENING; HEALTH CARE COST; HERITABLE PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; LIFE EXPECTANCY; NIDATION; OOCYTE RETRIEVAL; PENETRANCE; PREIMPLANTATION GENETIC TESTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION;

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN RECEPTORS, TYPE II; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; MALE; MUTATION; PREIMPLANTATION DIAGNOSIS;

EID: 84861903694     PISSN: 09031936     EISSN: 13993003     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1183/09031936.00218911     Document Type: Editorial

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