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Novel technologies emerging for preimplantation genetic diagnosis and preimplantation genetic testing for aneuploidy
18 Nov 2016
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INTRODUCTION: Preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) was introduced as an alternative to prenatal diagnosis: embryos cultured in vitro were analysed for a monogenic disease and only disease-free embryos were transferred to the mother, to avoid the termination of pregnancy with an affected foetus. It soon transpired that human embryos show a great deal of acquired chromosomal abnormalities, thought to explain the...
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