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Review: preimplantation diagnosis of inherited disease.
Journal of inherited metabolic disease - 1 Jan 1996
Lissens W, Sermon K, Staessen C, Assche E V, Janssenswillen C, Joris H, Van Steirteghem A, Liebaers I
Abstract excerpt
Preimplantation diagnosis of inherited diseases has become possible with the techniques of in vitro fertilization, blastomere biopsy of the 6- to 10-cell embryo and DNA analysis of the single blastomeres. Disease-free embryos are selected for transfer to the uterus, thereby avoiding the need for termination of a fetus diagnosed as affected in prenatal diagnosis in the first or early-second trimester of pregnancy....
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