Molecular and Genetic Medicine

Assisting Nature Unit, Centre of Reproduction and Genetics, Thessaloniki, Greece

Publications

• Case Report   
  Live Birth of a Healthy Boy after Preimplantation Genetic Testing for X-Linked Choroideremia Disorder
  Author(s): Tatsi P*, Papoulidis I, Timotheou E, Chartomatsidou T, Alexiou M, Zafeiratis O, Najdecki R, Athanasiadis A and Papanikolaou EG
  
  Preimplantation Genetic Testing (PGT) is a special technique in Assisted Reproduction Field that is applied to avoid a variety of hereditary disorders. This case report presents the first experience with rare X-linked Choroideremia disease (CHM), which leads to total blindness in male members of the family. To achieve a live birth in this case a total of 3 IVF procedures and 3 PGT cycles were performed. The data in our case offer the chance to couples suffering from rare genetic ophthalmo-neurological diseases to have healthy offspring. .. Read More»
  DOI: 10.37421/jmgm.2020.14.450

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