Comprehensive genetic assessment of the human embryo: Can empiric application of microarray comparative genomic hybridization reduce multiple gestation rate by single fresh blastocyst transfer

Archives of Gynecology and Obstetrics

Volumn 286, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 755-761

  Sills, Eric Scott ^a   Yang, Zhihong ^a   Walsh, David J ^b   Salem, Shala A ^a  

^a Orange County   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Array CGH; Assisted fertility; Comprehensive chromosomal; IVF; Screening; Single embryo transfer

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME; BIOPSY TECHNIQUE; BLASTOCYST; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; DNA FRAGMENTATION; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENETIC SCREENING; HUMAN; HUMAN EMBRYO; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MICROARRAY COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MULTIPLE GESTATION RATE; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY RATE; PREIMPLANTATION EMBRYO; RISK REDUCTION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION;

COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PREIMPLANTATION DIAGNOSIS; SINGLE EMBRYO TRANSFER;

EID: 84868000402     PISSN: 09320067     EISSN: 14320711     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00404-012-2396-1     Document Type: Article

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