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Preimplantation Genetic Screening: A Practical Guide

Posted Thu, Feb, 28,2013

Published today in Clinical Medicine Insights: Reproductive Health is a new perspective article by Paul R. Brezina, Raymond W. Ke and William H. Kutteh.  Read more about this paper below:

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Preimplantation Genetic Screening: A Practical Guide

Abstract

The past several decades have seen tremendous advances in the field of medical genetics. The application of genetic technologies to the field of reproductive medicine has ushered in a new era of medicine that is likely to greatly expand in the coming years. Concurrent with an in vitro fertilization (IVF) cycle, it is now possible to obtain a cellular biopsy from a developing embryo and genetically evaluate this sample with increasing sophistication and detail. Preimplantation genetic screening (PGS) is the practice of determining the presence of aneuploidy (either too many or too few chromosomes) in a developing embryo. However, how and in whom PGS should be offered is a topic of much debate.

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