Fertility and Sterility
Volume 94, Issue 3 , Pages 875-887 , August 2010

Comprehensive chromosome screening of polar bodies and blastocysts from couples experiencing repeated implantation failure

  • Elpida Fragouli, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Nuffield Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
    • Reprogenetics UK, Oxford, United Kingdom
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Elpida Fragouli, Ph.D., University of Oxford, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, United Kingdom (FAX: + 011441865617677).
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  • Mandy Katz-Jaffe, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Colorado Center for Reproductive Medicine, Lone Tree, Colorado
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  • Samer Alfarawati, M.S.

      Affiliations

    • Nuffield Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
    • Reprogenetics UK, Oxford, United Kingdom
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  • John Stevens, B.S.

      Affiliations

    • Colorado Center for Reproductive Medicine, Lone Tree, Colorado
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  • Pere Colls, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Reprogenetics LLC, Livingston, New Jersey
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  • N-neka Goodall, B.A.

      Affiliations

    • Reprogenetics LLC, Livingston, New Jersey
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  • Sophia Tormasi, B.S.

      Affiliations

    • Reprogenetics LLC, Livingston, New Jersey
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  • Cristina Gutierrez-Mateo, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Reprogenetics LLC, Livingston, New Jersey
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  • Renata Prates, B.S.

      Affiliations

    • Reprogenetics LLC, Livingston, New Jersey
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  • William B. Schoolcraft, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Colorado Center for Reproductive Medicine, Lone Tree, Colorado
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  • Santiago Munne, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Reprogenetics LLC, Livingston, New Jersey
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  • Dagan Wells, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Nuffield Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
    • Reprogenetics UK, Oxford, United Kingdom

Received 17 February 2009 ,Revised 7 April 2009 ,Accepted 24 April 2009.

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 E.F. has nothing to disclose. M.K.-J. has nothing to disclose. S.A. has nothing to disclose. J.S. has nothing to disclose. P.C. has nothing to disclose. N.G. has nothing to disclose. S.T. has nothing to disclose. C.G.-M. has nothing to disclose. R.P. has nothing to disclose. W.B.S. has nothing to disclose. S.M. has nothing to disclose. D.W. has nothing to disclose.

 D.W. is funded by the National Institute for Health Research Biomedical Research Centre Programme. The authors also received valuable support from the “Once Upon a Time Foundation.”

PII: S0015-0282(09)01078-4

doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2009.04.053

Fertility and Sterility
Volume 94, Issue 3 , Pages 875-887 , August 2010

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