No evidence of association between blastocyst aneuploidy and morphokinetic assessment in a selected population of poor-prognosis patients: A longitudinal cohort study

Reproductive BioMedicine Online

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 57-66

  Rienzi, L ^a   Capalbo, A ^a   Stoppa, M ^a   Romano, S ^a   Maggiulli, R ^a   Albricci, L ^a   Scarica, C ^a   Farcomeni, A ^b   Vajta, G ^c,d   Ubaldi, F M ^a  

^a GENERA Centre for Reproductive Medicine   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c CENTRAL QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d BGI SHENZHEN   (China)

Author keywords

biopsy; blastocyst; PGS; qPCR; time lapse

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANEUPLOIDY; ARTICLE; BIOPSY; BLASTOCYST ANEUPLOIDY; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; COHORT ANALYSIS; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC SCREENING; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IN VITRO STUDY; INCUBATOR; KARYOTYPE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL AGE; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; PREIMPLANTATION EMBRYO; PROGNOSIS; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; TIMELAPSE INCUBATOR; TROPHECTODERM BIOPSY; BLASTOCYST; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CYTOLOGY; EMBRYO TRANSFER; OOCYTE; OVULATION INDUCTION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PROCEDURES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ANEUPLOIDY; BIOPSY; BLASTOCYST; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; EMBRYO TRANSFER; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; OOCYTES; OVULATION INDUCTION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREIMPLANTATION DIAGNOSIS; PROGNOSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 84920121039     PISSN: 14726483     EISSN: 14726491     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rbmo.2014.09.012     Document Type: Article

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