Concurrent Sessions

Monday, May 7, 2006, 15.00 - 16.30 hrs - Room A

C08. Prenatal and preimplantation diagnosis

C46. Non invasive screening and rapid QF-PCR assay could reduce the need of conventional cytogenetic analyses in prenatal diagnosis
V. Cirigliano^1,2, G. Voglino³, M. Adinolfi⁴;
¹Dept. Genetica Molecular, General Lab, Barcelona, Spain, ²Departament de Biologia Cel•lular Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Spain, ³Molecular Genetics and Cytogenetics Lab, Promea, Torino, Italy, ⁴The Galton Laboratory, University College London, London, United Kingdom.

C47. Chromosomal mosaicism, DNA methylation and embryolethality: a possible link between cytogenetic and epigenetic factors in the etiology of embryo aneuploidy
I. N. Lebedev, E. N. Tolmacheva, E. A. Sazhenova, A. A. Kashevarova;
Insitute of Medical Genetics, Tomsk, Russian Federation.

C48. Ten years of a programme for presymptomatic testing (PST) and prenatal diagnosis (PND) in late-onset neurological diseases in Portugal: Machado-Joseph disease (MJD), Huntington disease (HD) and familial amyloid neuropathy type I - ATTRV30M (FAP-I)
J. Sequeiros^1,2, J. Pinto-Basto^1,3, T. Coelho^1,4, J. C. Rocha^1,5, S. Lêdo^1,5, Â. Leite¹, L. Rolim^1,6, M. Branco^1,4, S. Albuquerque¹, M. Paneque¹, S. W. Sequeiros^1,7, M. Marta^1,4, P. Valente^1,8, C. Barbot^1,9, A. Lopes^1,8, J. Leal Loureiro^1,10, M. Fleming^1,2;
¹IBMC, Univ. Porto, Portugal, ²ICBAS, Univ. Porto, Portugal, ³IGM, Porto, Portugal, ⁴HGSA, Porto, Portugal, ⁵ISCS-N, Paredes, Portugal, ⁶Univ. Fernando Pessoa, Porto, Portugal, ⁷ISPA, Lisbon, Portugal, ⁸Hosp. Magalhães Lemos, Porto, Portugal, ⁹Hosp. Maria Pia, Porto, Portugal, ¹⁰Hosp. S.Teotónio, Viseu, Portugal.

C49. Single-cell chromosomal imbalances detection by array CGH
C. Le Caignec^1,2, C. Spits², K. Sermon², M. De Rycke², B. Thienpont¹, Y. Moreau³, J. P. Fryns¹, A. Van Steirteghem², I. Liebaers², J. R. Vermeesch¹;
¹Center for Human Genetics, University Hospital Gasthuisberg, Leuven, Belgium, ²Research Group Reproduction and Genetics, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium, ³ESAT-SISTA, K.U. Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.

C50. Whole genome amplification with haplotype analysis - a novel approach to preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) for a wide range of diseases.
P. J. Renwick^1,2, J. Trussler², H. Fassihi³, P. Braude^2,3, C. Mackie Ogilvie^1,2, S. Abbs^1,2;
¹Genetics Centre, Guy's Hospital, London, United Kingdom, ²Centre for Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis, Guy's Hospital, London, United Kingdom, ³King's College, London, United Kingdom.

C51. Preimplantation genetic diagnosis for HLA compatible and disease free embryos: Single center experience.
E. Altıok^1,2, F. Taylan^1,2, S. Yüksel¹, C. Demirel³, E. Dönmez³, I. Ünsal⁴, G. Demirkeser¹;
¹Acibadem Genetic Diagnosis Center, Istanbul, Turkey, ²Boğaziçi University, Dept. Molecular Biology &Genetics, Istanbul, Turkey, ³Acibadem IVF Center, Istanbul, Turkey, ⁴Acibadem Labmed, Istanbul, Turkey.