Fertility and Sterility
Volume 93, Issue 6 , Pages 2075.e3-2075.e6 , April 2010

Molecular cytogenetic analysis by genomic hybridization to determine the cause of recurrent miscarriage

  • Aurore Perrin, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Laboratoire d'Histologie, Embryologie et Cytogénétique, Faculté de Médecine et des Sciences de la Santé, Université de Brest, Brest, France
    • INSERM U613, Brest, France
    • Service de Cytogénétique, Cytologie et Biologie de la Reproduction, Hôpital Morvan, Brest, France
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  • Bruno Delobel, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Centre de Génétique Chromosomique, Hôpital Saint-Vincent de Paul, Lille, France
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  • Joris Andrieux, M.D., Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Laboratoire de Génétique Médicale, Hôpital Jeanne de Flandre, Lille, France
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  • Philippe Gosset, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Service de Biologie de la Reproduction SIHCUS-CMCO, CHU de Strasbourg, Schiltigheim, France
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  • Nadia Gueganic, B.Sc.

      Affiliations

    • Laboratoire d'Histologie, Embryologie et Cytogénétique, Faculté de Médecine et des Sciences de la Santé, Université de Brest, Brest, France
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  • Florence Petit, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Centre de Génétique Chromosomique, Hôpital Saint-Vincent de Paul, Lille, France
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  • Marc De Braekeleer, M.D., Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Laboratoire d'Histologie, Embryologie et Cytogénétique, Faculté de Médecine et des Sciences de la Santé, Université de Brest, Brest, France
    • INSERM U613, Brest, France
    • Service de Cytogénétique, Cytologie et Biologie de la Reproduction, Hôpital Morvan, Brest, France
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Marc De Braekeleer, Laboratoire de Cytogénétique, Faculté de Médecine et des Sciences de la Santé, Université de Bretagne Occidentale, 22 avenue Camille Desmoulins, CS 93837, F-29238 Brest cedex 3, France (TEL: + 33 0-298-01-64-76; FAX: +33-0-298-01-81-89).
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  • Frédéric Morel, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Laboratoire d'Histologie, Embryologie et Cytogénétique, Faculté de Médecine et des Sciences de la Santé, Université de Brest, Brest, France
    • INSERM U613, Brest, France
    • Service de Cytogénétique, Cytologie et Biologie de la Reproduction, Hôpital Morvan, Brest, France

Received 10 July 2009 ,Revised 16 September 2009 ,Accepted 9 November 2009.

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 A.P. has nothing to disclose. B.D. has nothing to disclose. J.A. has nothing to disclose. P.G. has nothing to disclose. N.G has nothing to disclose. F.P. has nothing to disclose. M.D.B. has nothing to disclose. F.M. has nothing to disclose.

PII: S0015-0282(09)04045-X

doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2009.11.016

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