Reply: Questions about the accuracy of polar body analysis for preimplantation genetic screening

Human Reproduction

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1733-1736

  Capalbo, Antonio ^a   Bono, Sara ^b   Spizzichino, Letizia ^b   Biricik, Anil ^b   Baldi, Marina ^b   Colamaria, Silvia ^a   Ubaldi, Filippo Maria ^a   Rienzi, Laura ^a   Fiorentino, Francesco ^b  

^a GENERA   (Italy)

^b GENOMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANEUPLOIDY; BLASTOCYST; CHROMOSOME MOSAICISM; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; ECTODERM; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; GENETIC SCREENING; HUMAN; INNER CELL MASS; LETTER; POLAR BODY; BLASTOMA; CYTOLOGY; FEMALE; GENETICS; MEIOSIS; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PROCEDURES; TROPHOBLAST;

BLASTOMERES; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MEIOSIS; POLAR BODIES; PREIMPLANTATION DIAGNOSIS; TROPHOBLASTS;

EID: 84878329736     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: 14602350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/det070     Document Type: Letter

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