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ArticleClinical and experimental reproductive medicine2020

Reanalysis of discarded blastocysts for autosomal aneuploidy after sex selection in cleavage-stage embryos.

Neda Ebrahimian, Fatemeh Montazeri, Mohammad Reza Sadeghi, Seyed Mehdi Kalantar, Kambiz Gilany, Mohannad Ali Khalili

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Neda EbrahimianResearch and Clinical Center for Infertility, Yazd Reproductive Sciences Institute, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran.
Fatemeh MontazeriAbortion Research Center, Yazd Reproductive Sciences Institute, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran.
Mohammad Reza SadeghiReproductive Embryology and Andrology Research Center, Avicenna Research Institute, Academic Center for Education, Culture and Research, Tehran, Iran.
Seyed Mehdi KalantarAbortion Research Center, Yazd Reproductive Sciences Institute, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran.
Kambiz GilanyReproductive Biotechnology Research Center, Avicenna Research Institute, ACECR, Tehran, Iran.
Mohannad Ali KhaliliResearch and Clinical Center for Infertility, Yazd Reproductive Sciences Institute, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran.

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Yazd Reproductive Sciences Institute grant no. 5647
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objectiveThe goal of the present study was to investigate the rate of chromosomal aneuploidies in surplus embryos after sex determination at the cleavage stage. Then, the same chromosomal aneuploidies were evaluated in blastocysts after extended culture.

methodsSixty-eight surplus embryos were biopsied at the cleavage stage and incubated for an additional 3 days to allow them to reach the blastocyst stage. The embryos were reanalyzed via fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) to examine eight chromosomes (13, 15, 16, 18, 21, 22, X, and Y) in both cleavage-stage embryos and blastocysts.

resultsAlthough the total abnormality rate was lower in blastocysts (32.35%) than in cleavage-stage embryos (45.58%), the difference was not significant (p=0.113). However, when we restricted the analysis to autosomal abnormalities, we observed a significant difference in the abnormality rate between the cleavage-stage embryos (44.11%) and the blastocysts (17.64%, p=0.008). A higher rate of sex chromosomal abnormalities was also observed in cleavage-stage embryos (29.4%) than in blastocysts (14.70%, p=0.038).

conclusionThe data indicated that embryo biopsy should be conducted at the blastocyst stage rather than the cleavage stage. The results also emphasized that examination of common chromosomal aneuploidies apart from sex selection cycles can be conducted in the blastocyst stage with the FISH method.

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