aneuploidy

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Because aneuploidy is the most common cause of IVF failure, identifying viable embryos for transfer to the uterus can significantly boost birthrates for IVF.

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  1. noun The state or condition of being aneuploid.

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  • Too many or too few (referred to as "aneuploidy") will result in either a non-viable embryo, a miscarriage or, if implanted and carried to term, a birth defect. —  Medlogs - Recent stories
  • Because aneuploidy is the most common cause of IVF failure, identifying viable embryos for transfer to the uterus can significantly boost birthrates for IVF. —  Medlogs - Recent stories
  • This lethality is not likely due to gamete aneuploidy, because in the injected hermaphrodites, oocytes in diakinesis are euploid, and sperm meiosis was complete prior to injection. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • Li Ka Shing Professor of Medicine at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, presented insights in future opportunities for noninvasive prenatal diagnostics, including pioneering work in a novel DNA approach to the detection of fetal aneuploidy, an approach which Sequenom is already evaluating in R&D studies. —  Digital50.com Digital 50 Daily Industry News RSS Feed
  • From polyploidy to aneuploidy, genome instability and cancer —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
 

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