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Preconception and preimplantation diagnosis of human genetic disease

Title
Preconception and preimplantation diagnosis of human genetic disease / edited by Robert G. Edwards.
Publication
Cambridge [England] ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1993.

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Additional Authors
Edwards, R. G. (Robert Geoffrey), 1925-2013.
Description
xii, 340 pages : illustrations (some color); 26 cm
Summary
The advent of human in vitro fertilization and developments in molecular science have made it possible to diagnose genetic disease in conceptuses at a very early stage of development. This book presents the most recent advances and developments in this developing area of applied research.
Subject
  • Preimplantation genetic diagnosis
  • Embryology
  • Preconception care
  • DNA > genetics
  • Embryonic Development
  • Genetic Diseases, Inborn > diagnosis
  • Genetic Diseases, Inborn > prevention & control
  • Preconception Care
  • Prenatal Diagnosis > methods
  • Preimplantation Diagnosis
  • Preconception care
  • Embryology
  • Preimplantation genetic diagnosis
  • Präimplantationsdiagnostik
  • Aufsatzsammlung
  • Erbkrankheit
  • Embryoimplantatie
  • Prenatale diagnose
  • Erfelijke ziekten
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
  • History of and opportunities for preimplantation diagnosis / R.G. Edwards, J.D. Schulman -- Metabolism of human preimplantation embryos / J. Tesarik -- Scope of preimplantation diagnosis / R. Penketh -- Development of prenatal diagnosis -- Genetics of some common inherited diseases / J.D. Schulman, S.H. Black -- Brief history of prenatal diagnosis / Y. Verlinsky, N. Ginsberg -- Current status of chorionic villus sampling / E. Pergament, B. Fine -- Methods of DNA diagnosis -- Analysis of genetic variation in the single cell / D.R. Bentley [and others].
  • Direct diagnosis of genetic defects / D.R. Bentley -- Preconception and preimplantation diagnosis -- Can spermatozoa be typed / B.I. Gledhill, R.G. Edwards -- Preconception diagnosis of polar bodies / Y. Verlinsky, C.M. Strom -- Cleavage stage biopsy of human embryos and diagnosis of X chromosome-linked recessive disease / A.H. Handyside, J.D.A. Delhanty -- Micromanipulation of blastocysts for the diagnosis of genetic disease / G.M. Hartshorne, R.L. Gardner, R.G. Edwards -- Potential for preimplantation diagnosis by non-invasive or semiinvasive methods / H.J. Leese, R.G. Edwards.
  • Ethics and law -- Ethics and law of the diagnosis of human genetic disease / D. Brahams.
ISBN
  • 0521404258
  • 9780521404259
LCCN
91043245
OCLC
  • ocm24905743
  • 24905743
  • SCSB-9822781
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library