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[Preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) for cancer predisposition syndromes].
Harefuah - 1 Jun 2011
Malcov Mira, Ben-Yosef Dalit, Amit Ami, Yaron Yuval
Abstract excerpt
INTRODUCTION: Most cases of cancer are sporadic and only 5%-10% are inherited with variable penetrance. Whenever the causative mutation is known, prevention of affected offspring birth may be achieved by prenatal or preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD). AIM: To devise a scoring system (SS) that appraises the justification of PGD for each patient and to evaluate the efficacy, reliability and accuracy of PGD for...
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