Fertility and Sterility
Volume 87, Issue 1 , Pages 60-73 , January 2007

Five years’ experience of preimplantation genetic diagnosis in the Parisian Center: outcome of the first 441 started cycles

  • Estelle Feyereisen, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Service de Gynécologie-Obstétrique et de Médecine de la Reproduction, Hôpital Antoine Béclère, Clamart
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  • Julie Steffann, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Département de Génètique, Hôpital Necker Enfants Malades, Paris
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  • Serge Romana, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Département de Génètique, Hôpital Necker Enfants Malades, Paris
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  • Marc Lelorc’h, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Département de Génètique, Hôpital Necker Enfants Malades, Paris
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  • Pierre Ray, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Département de Génètique, Hôpital Necker Enfants Malades, Paris
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  • Violaine Kerbrat, B.Sc.

      Affiliations

    • Service de Gynécologie-Obstétrique et de Médecine de la Reproduction, Hôpital Antoine Béclère, Clamart
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  • Gérard Tachdjian, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Service de Biologie et Génétique de la Reproduction, Hôpital Antoine Béclère, Clamart, France
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  • René Frydman, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Service de Gynécologie-Obstétrique et de Médecine de la Reproduction, Hôpital Antoine Béclère, Clamart
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  • Nelly Frydman, Pharm.D.

      Affiliations

    • Service de Biologie et Génétique de la Reproduction, Hôpital Antoine Béclère, Clamart, France
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Nelly Frydman, Pharm.D., Service de Biologie et Génétique de la Reproduction, Hôpital Antoine Béclère, 157 rue de la Porte-de-Trivaux, 92141 Clamart Cedex, France (FAX: 33-1-45-37-42-07).

Received 18 November 2005 ,Revised 27 May 2006 ,Accepted 27 May 2006.

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doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2006.05.059

Fertility and Sterility
Volume 87, Issue 1 , Pages 60-73 , January 2007

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