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Rapid mapping of chromosomal breakpoints: from blood to BAC in 20 days [PDF]
Structural chromosome aberrations and associated segmental or chromosomal aneusomies are major causes of reproductive failure in humans. Despite the fact that carriers of reciprocal balanced translocation often have no other clinical symptoms or ...
Baumgartner, Adolf +7 more
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Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis
Preimplantation genetic diagnosis raises ethical and moral concerns about using one person as a means to save another, especially as highlighted in recent cases where parents have more children in the hopes of saving a sick child. Virtual Mentor is a monthly bioethics journal published by the American Medical Association.
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Predictors of pain during oocyte retrieval
Introduction: Pain during oocyte retrieval remains prevalent despite detailed and specific pain management protocols. Exploring the role of psychosocial risk factors of pain during the oocyte retrieval could identify possible targets for prevention.
Yoon Frederiksen +4 more
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New perspectives on preimplantation genetic diagnosis and preimplantation genetic screening
Preimplantation genetic diagnosis is a procedure that involves the removal of one or more nuclei from oocytes (a polar body) or embryos (blastomeres or trophectoderm cells) in order to test for problems in genome sequence or chromosomes of the embryo ...
Chun-Kai Chen +3 more
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Endometrial thickness and early pregnancy complications after frozen-thawed embryo transfers
BackgroundThe relationship between endometrial thickness and pregnancy safety after in vitro fertilization treatment is an important topic that should provoke attention.
Lin Song +11 more
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Strategy for the creation of clinical grade hESC line banks that HLA‐match a target population
Here, we describe a pre‐derivation embryo haplotyping strategy that we developed in order to maximize the efficiency and minimize the costs of establishing banks of clinical grade hESC lines in which human leukocyte antigen (HLA) haplotypes match a ...
Laureen Jacquet +9 more
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Targeting myotonic dystrophy by preimplantation genetic diagnosis-karyomapping
Objective: To report a case with Myotonic dystrophy type I with successful preimplantation genetic diagnosis-karyomapping. Case report: A 34-year-old female carrier of myotonic dystrophy type I was treated at our clinic with a successful pregnancy after ...
Cheng-Wei Wang +2 more
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Ethics of modifying the mitochondrial genome [PDF]
Recent preclinical studies have shown the feasibility of specific variants of nuclear transfer to prevent mitochondrial DNA disorders. Nuclear transfer could be a valuable reproductive option for carriers of mitochondrial mutations.
Bredenoord, A L +3 more
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Genetic Selective Abortion: Still a Matter of Choice [PDF]
Jeremy Williams has argued that if we are committed to a liberal pro-choice stance with regard to selective abortion for disability, we will be unable to justify the prohibition of sex selective abortion. Here, I apply his reasoning to selective abortion
Blackshaw, Bruce P.
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A Right to Choose?: Sex Selection in the International Context [PDF]
While there is some debate among doctors, ethicists, and the general public about the level of medical necessity that should justify a sex-selection procedure, most accept that sex selection for medical reasons is beyond ethical reproach, and in some ...
Bumgarner, Ashley
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