1st Edition

Preimplantation Genetic Testing Recent Advances in Reproductive Medicine

Edited By Darren K. Griffin, Gary L. Harton Copyright 2020
    175 Pages 51 Color & 3 B/W Illustrations
    by CRC Press

    175 Pages 51 Color & 3 B/W Illustrations
    by CRC Press

    175 Pages 51 Color & 3 B/W Illustrations
    by CRC Press

    Preimplantation genetic testing (PGT) is now well established as a valuable treatment option for patients wishing to start or continue a family, for a range of indications from advanced maternal age to high risk of transmitting inherited disease. This text brings together contemporary thinking from international opinion leaders and will be an invaluable guide for practitioners in Reproductive Medicine wishing to keep pace with the latest developments and clinical data.

    Foreword

    Editors

    Contributors

    1. Preimplantation Genetic Testing and Reproductive Genetics from a Physician’s Perspective

    Kateřina Veselá

    2. Genetic Counseling for Preimplantation Genetic Testing

    Lauri D. Black and Jill M. Fischer

    3. Preimplantation Genetic Testing for Aneuploidies: Where We Are and Where We’re Going

    Andrea Victor, Cagri Ogur, Alan Thornhill, and Darren K. Griffin

    4. Preimplantation Genetic Testing for Structural Rearrangements

    Cagri Ogur and Darren K. Griffin

    5. Preimplantation Genetic Testing for Monogenic Disorders

    Martine De Rycke and Pieter Verdyck

    6. Novel Methods in Preimplantation Genetic Testing: Comprehensive Preimplantation Genetic Testing

    Olga Tsuiko and Joris Robert Vermeesch

    7. Time-Lapse Imaging and Preimplantation Genetic Testing

    Alison Campbell

    8. Mosaicism Mechanisms in Preimplantation Embryos

    Maurizio Poli and Antonio Capalbo

    9. Transfer of Mosaic Embryos

    Francesco Fiorentino, Ermanno Greco, Maria Giulia Minasi, and Francesca Spinella

    10. Noninvasive Methods of Preimplantation Genetic Testing for Aneuploidies

    Luis Navarro-Sánchez, Carmen María García-Pascual, Lucía Martínez-Merino, Carlos Simón, and Carmen Rubio

    11. Preimplantation Genetic Testing in the Future

    Joe Leigh Simpson, Svetlana Rechitsky, and Anver Kuliev

    Index

    Biography

    Darren K Griffin, PhD, DSc, FRSA, FRSB, FRCPath, is Professor of Genetics at the School of Biosciences, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK, President of the International Chromosome and Genome Society, and Director of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies of Reproduction. Gary Harton, PhD, is Global Director of Market Development PGD for Perkin-Elmer Inc., Waltham, MA, teacher at Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, VA, and at Bryant University, Smithfield, RI, USA: he has worked for over 20 years in both laboratory and clinical management in the IVF field and has served on a number of international committees including the ESHRE PGD Consortium and the UK Steering Committee for External Quality Assessment.