One hundred mosaic embryos transferred prospectively in a single clinic: exploring when and why they result in healthy pregnancies

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 111, Issue 2, 2019, Pages 280-293

  Victor, Andrea R ^a,b   Tyndall, Jack C ^a   Brake, Alan J ^a   Lepkowsky, Laura T ^a   Murphy, Alex E ^a   Griffin, Darren K ^b   McCoy, Rajiv C ^c   Barnes, Frank L ^a,d   Zouves, Christo G ^a,d   Viotti, Manuel ^a,d  

^a Zouves Fertility Center (ZFC)   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Zouves Foundation for Reproductive Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

aneuploidy; blastocyst; Mosaic; next generation sequencing; PGT A

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA;

ADULT; ANEUPLOIDY; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHROMOSOME MOSAICISM; CLINICAL OUTCOME; EMBRYO; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; GENETIC SCREENING; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; KARYOTYPE; MATERNAL AGE; MORTALITY RATE; NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING; OOCYTE RETRIEVAL; PREGNANCY; PREIMPLANTATION EMBRYO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; CELL DEATH; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; IN VITRO FERTILIZATION; KARYOTYPING; LIVE BIRTH; MOSAICISM; NIDATION; PATHOLOGY; PREGNANCY RATE; PREIMPLANTATION GENETIC DIAGNOSIS; PROCEDURES; RISK FACTOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; ANEUPLOIDY; BLASTOCYST; CELL DEATH; CELL PROLIFERATION; EMBRYO IMPLANTATION; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HUMANS; KARYOTYPING; LIVE BIRTH; MATERNAL AGE; MOSAICISM; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; PREIMPLANTATION DIAGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 85060456532     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: 15565653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2018.10.019     Document Type: Article

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