Online Educational Program

Non-Invasive Prenatal Testing (NIPT): Current state of the ART

Introduction of NIPT in clinical practice
Dick Oepkes, The Netherlands | Lecture | BIO | Overview

NIPT/MPSS: Expanding the boundaries of prenatal screening
Lee Shulman, USA | Lecture | BIO

Debate : How should NIPT be used
Moderator: Dick Oepkes, The Netherlands
As primary screening to all patients: Tom Musci, USA
As contingent screening in very high and intermediate risk patients Howard Cuckle, USA/Israel | Lecture | BIO | Overview

The placenta as a source for NIPT Discordance
Francesca Romana Grati, Italy | Lecture | BIO

Non-Invasive Prenatal Testing (NIPT): Future Perspectives

NIPD for Single-Gene Disorders
Lyn Chitty, UK | Lecture | BIO | Overview

Will the Fetal Exome Contribute to the Counseling and Management of the Dysmorphic or Malformed Fetus?
Lyn Chitty, UK | Lecture | BIO

Chromosomal microarrays (CMA) in Prenatal Diagnosis

Chromosomal microarrays - How does it work?
Vincenzo Cirigliano, Spain | Lecture | BIO

Can CMA replace standard karyotyping?
Francesco Fiorentino, Italy | Lecture | BIO | Overview

Counseling for Variants of Unclear Clinical Significance
Brigitte Faas, The Netherlands | Lecture | BIO | Overview

Detection of Copy number variants (CNVs) in prenatal diagnosis
Francesca Romana Grati, Italy | Lecture | BIO

History of PGD and PGS

A Brief History of Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis and Preimplantation Genetic Screening
Jason Franasiak, USA
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PGD and PGS: State-of-the-Art

Development and current best practice for translocations
Francesco Fiorentino, Italy | Lecture | BIO

Single gene diagnosis and aneuploidy detection using karyomapping
Tony Gordon, UK | Lecture | BIO

Clinically evaluating NGS and its extra information
Dagan Wells, UK | Lecture | BIO | Overview

The clinical value of Preimplantation Genetic Screening (PGS)

Comprehensive Chromosome Screening in IVF: Enhancing Outcomes while reducing the Burden of Care
Jason Franasiak, USA | Lecture | BIO

Aneuploidy in embryos: variability between centers, between patients and between cycles of the same patients
Santiago Munné, USA | Lecture | BIO | Overview

Technical aspects of reproductive genetics (Methods of PGS, PGD, Prenatal)
Darren Griffin, UK | Lecture | BIO | Overview

Debate: Is it now unethical not to screen out an aneuploidy embryo in IVF?
For: Gabriel Lazarin, Germany
Against: Sjoerd Repping, The Netherlands | Lecture | BIO | Overview

Introduction to Genetics

Basic principles for the non-geneticist
Brigitte Faas, The Netherlands | Lecture | BIO | Overview

Next generation sequencing: Strategies for genetic testing
Mark Hughes, USA | Lecture | BIO

Prediction of Gamete quality and viability

Cumulus cell genomics and its predictive value
Samir Hamamah, France | Lecture | BIO | Overview

Update on polar body testing for detection of female meiotic errors
Alan Handyside, UK | Lecture | BIO | Overview

Genetics in infertility

Characterization of the molecular etiology of severe cases of infertility - a must to bring personalized medicine to the field of reproduction
Pierre Ray, France | Lecture | BIO | Overview

Gene therapy in reproductive medicine
Gregory Christman, USA | Lecture | BIO | Overview

Social and legal aspects
Francoise Shenfield, UK | Lecture | BIO | Overview

Preconception Screening

Carrier screening of recessive disease: Universal screening
Gabriel Lazarin, USA | Lecture | BIO | Overview

Merging a comprehensive preconception carrier screening panel and chromosomal microarray analysis
Doron Behar, Israel | Lecture | BIO

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Screening

Reproductive
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PGD / PGS

Prenatal Diagnosis

Publications

Publications that were selected by our scientific advisory board
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Surveys

Our NEW survey: Preimplantation genetic screening (PGS) : what is my opinion
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Subcategories

Publications Article Count: 2

Making relevant academic content accessible to genetics professionals Key sources of academic content for many physicians in field of genetics are academic journals which specialize in the field of fertility and genetics such as Fertility and Sterility and Human Reproduction. Finding relevant content in boarder academic publications is difficult and requires time and effort. Journals such as the NEJM, Science, Nature, Lancet, Plus One, and others, publish high quality papers in the field of infertility however in many cases this content is overlooked by genetics professionals. We aim to change that by creating the genetics Reproductive Medical Text Aggregator which will provide professionals with easy access to important academic material in the field.

Reproductive Genetics Article Count: 8

Pre-conception Screening Article Count: 2

Prenatal diagnosis Article Count: 10

PGD/PGS Article Count: 7

Physician-to-Physician Consult Article Count: 5

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