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The first reported case of Down syndrome in the Southern California Fertility Institute's in vitro fertilization and
C H Hsiung1, W G Karow, W C Gentry
1Southern California Fertility Institute, Los Angeles 90025.
Journal of in Vitro Fertilization and Embryo Transfer : IVF
|December 1, 1987
Abstract:
The first case of a genetic abnormality in a 3-year in vitro fertilization and embryo transfer program was diagnosed after routine amniocentesis of a 38-year-old patient. The G-banded karyotype analysis gave 47, XY, +21, which constitutes an abnormal chromosome pattern consistent with Down syndrome.