Successful preimplantation genetic aneuploidy screening in Turkish patients

Successful preimplantation genetic aneuploidy screening in Turkish patients.

Preimplantation genetic diagnosis is a preventive approach for identifying genetic abnormalities in early stages of reproduction. We used preimplantation genetic aneuploidy screening in 230 cycles of patients with indications of advanced maternal age, recurrent implantation failure, recurrent spontaneous abortions, or severe male factor. Biopsied blastomeres from embryos with six to eight ...

What next for preimplantation genetic screening? Beyond aneuploidy.

Many published papers suggest a favourable impact of preimplantation genetic screening (PGS) on implantation and pregnancy rates, but more recent randomized studies have not confirmed, or could not conclude, that PGS actually improved implantation rates. Team inexperience in embryo screening has been mentioned as the origin of the discrepancies; thus some clinicians allege a need for more power...

Preimplantation genetic screening.

Preimplantation Genetic Screening

In the last 30 years, genetic testing techniques have been developed to identify chromosomally normal embryos in vitro, thereby potentially increasing the proportion of successful cycles with elective single-embryo transfer, and minimizing twin-pregnancy complications and miscarriages. This testing is termed "pre-implantation genetic screening" (PGS), in contrast to preimplantation genetic diag...

The Role of Aneuploidy Screening in Human Preimplantation Embryos

Aneuploidy can be defined as extra or missing whole chromosomes in the nucleus of a cell and occurs during cell division when chromosomes do not separate equally between the two new daughter cells (Hassold & Hunt 2001). Chromosome imbalance typically results in non-viability, manifesting as developmental arrest prior to implantation, miscarriage or stillbirth. Depending on the chromosomes invol...