Developmental potential of clinically discarded human embryos and associated chromosomal analysis

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Yao, Guidong ^a   Xu, Jiawei ^a   Xin, Zhimin ^a   Niu, Wenbin ^a   Shi, Senlin ^a   Jin, Haixia ^a   Song, Wenyan ^a   Wang, Enyin ^a   Yang, Qingling ^a   Chen, Lei ^a   Sun, Yingpu ^a  

^a THE FIRST AFFILIATED HOSPITAL OF ZHENGZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOPSY; BLASTOCYST; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMOSOME; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CUMULUS CELL; CYTOLOGY; DNA MICROARRAY; EMBRYO CULTURE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; METABOLISM; OOCYTE; PREIMPLANTATION GENETIC DIAGNOSIS; PROCEDURES; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; ULTRASTRUCTURE; ZYGOTE;

BIOPSY; BLASTOCYST; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; CHROMOSOMES; CUMULUS CELLS; EMBRYO CULTURE TECHNIQUES; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; OOCYTES; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PREIMPLANTATION DIAGNOSIS; ZYGOTE;

EID: 84963665169     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep23995     Document Type: Article

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