Atlas of preimplantation genetic diagnosis

• Main Authors: Verlinsky, Yury (Author), Kuliev, Anver (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: London Taylor & Francis 2005
• Edition: Second Edition
• Subjects: Preimplantation Diagnosis > methods; Genetic Diseases, Inborn > prevention & control; Prenatal Diagnosis > methods
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• Item Description: "A Parthenon book."
• Physical Description: xiv, 288 pages illustrations 30 cm
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index
• ISBN: 9781842142455; 1842142453

Extensively illustrated, this atlas is a manual for the establishment and realization of PGD within the framework of assisted reproduction and genetics services. Fully revised and updated, the atlas includes descriptions of the authors' pioneering work on polar body based PGD for genetic and chromosomal disorders. The authors' novel experience of PGD for late-onset disorders with genetic predisposition will be of special interest. Their accumulated PGD experience for poor-prognosis IVF patients presents further evidence of the improvement of clinical outcome and the requirement for meiotic error testing for a higher accuracy of preselecting aneuploidy-free embryos for transfer