Fertility and Sterility
Volume 91, Issue 6 , Pages 2432-2436 , June 2009

Assessment of day-3 morphology and euploidy for individual chromosomes in embryos that develop to the blastocyst stage

  • Jennifer L. Eaton, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts
    • Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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  • Michele R. Hacker, Sc.D., M.S.P.H.

      Affiliations

    • Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts
    • Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
    • ,
  • Doria Harris, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Boston IVF, Waltham, Massachusetts
    • ,
  • Kim L. Thornton, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts
    • Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
    • Boston IVF, Waltham, Massachusetts
    • ,
  • Alan S. Penzias, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts
    • Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
    • Boston IVF, Waltham, Massachusetts
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Alan Penzias, M.D., Boston IVF/Harvard Medical School, 130 Second Avenue, Waltham, MA02451 (FAX: 781-434-6501).

Received 21 November 2007 ,Revised 5 March 2008 ,Accepted 5 March 2008.

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 J.L.E. has nothing to disclose. M.R.H. is a consultant and member of the data safety monitoring board of Bayer Pharmaceuticals. D.H. has spouse with Incept Biosystems. K.L.T. is a consultant for and receives research support from Organon, is a speaker for and receives research support from EMD Serono, and receives research support from Ferring Pharmaceuticals. A.S.P. receives grant support from EMD Serono, Organon, and Ferring Pharmaceuticals, and is on the speakers bureau of Ferring Pharmaceuticals.

 Presented at the American Society for Reproductive Medicine 63rd Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, October 13–17, 2007.

PII: S0015-0282(08)00581-5

doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2008.03.008

Fertility and Sterility
Volume 91, Issue 6 , Pages 2432-2436 , June 2009

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