Technical Update: Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis and Screening

Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Canada

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 451-463

  Dahdouh, Elias ^a   Balayla, Jacques ^a   Audibert, François ^a   Wilson, R Douglas ^a   Brock, Jo Ann ^a   Campagnolo, Carla ^a   Carroll, June ^a   Chong, Karen ^a   Gagnon, Alain ^a   Johnson, Jo Ann ^a   MacDonald, William ^a   Okun, Nanette ^a   Pastuck, Melanie ^b   Vallée Pouliot, Karine ^a  

^a NONE   (Canada)

^b NONE   (Canada)

Author keywords

ACGH; Comprehensive chromosome screening; Embryo selection; Preimplantation genetic diagnosis; Preimplantation genetic screening; QPCR; SNP microarray

Indexed keywords

ANEUPLOIDY; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT INHERITANCE; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE INHERITANCE; BETA THALASSEMIA; BIOPSY; BLASTOCYST; CANADA; CHORION VILLUS SAMPLING; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; DUCHENNE MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; EMBRYO BIOPSY; EMBRYO CULTURE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO RESEARCH; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; FRAGILE X SYNDROME; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENETIC COUNSELING; GENETIC DISORDER; GENETIC SCREENING; GENOTYPE; HEMOPHILIA A; HETEROZYGOSITY LOSS; HUMAN; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; LIVE BIRTH; MARFAN SYNDROME; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MYOTONIC DYSTROPHY; NEUROFIBROMATOSIS TYPE 1; NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING; POLAR BODY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREIMPLANTATION GENETIC DIAGNOSIS; PREIMPLANTATION GENETIC SCREENING; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PROGNOSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCTIVE PROCEDURE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY; TUBEROUS SCLEROSIS; VITRIFICATION; X CHROMOSOME LINKED DISORDER; ANIMAL EMBRYO; FEMALE; GENE TRANSLOCATION; GENETIC DISEASES, INBORN; PATHOLOGY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREGNANCY; PROCEDURES; RISK FACTOR;

BIOPSY; CANADA; CYTOGENETIC ANALYSIS; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; FEMALE; GENETIC COUNSELING; GENETIC DISEASES, INBORN; GENETIC TESTING; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PREIMPLANTATION DIAGNOSIS; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED; RISK FACTORS; TRANSLOCATION, GENETIC;

EID: 84973519311     PISSN: 17012163     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1701-2163(15)30261-9     Document Type: Article

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