Definition, Meaning & Anagrams | English word PGD
PGD
Definitions of PGD
- (medicine) Initialism of preimplantation genetic diagnosis.
Number of letters
3
Is palindrome
No
Examples of Using PGD in a Sentence
- Although preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) is often approved by Halakha, it is a difficult and costly process.
- Preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD or PIGD) is the genetic profiling of embryos prior to implantation (as a form of embryo profiling), and sometimes even of oocytes prior to fertilization.
- Postgraduate diplomas are usually abbreviated as PGDip, PG Dip, PgD, PgDip, and, similar to a PgCert, diploma holders are permitted to use 'PgDip' or 'PgD' as a post-nominal, which is usually listed after all other academic degrees in ascending order, but before any professional qualifications.
- Prior to fertilization with IVF, the fertilized eggs can be genetically biopsied with preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) to increase fertilization success.
- Their breakthrough laid the groundwork for further innovations such as intracytoplasmatic sperm injection ICSI, embryo biopsy (PGD), and stem cell research.
- PGD can also be used to select for embryos of a certain sex, most commonly when a disease is more strongly associated with one sex than the other (as is the case for X-linked disorders which are more common in males, such as haemophilia).
- Preimplantation genetic haplotyping (PGH) is a clinical method of preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) used to determine the presence of single gene disorders in offspring.
- As a result of Verlinsky's pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) methods, experts today are able to more easily test for over 200 different genetic disorders and diseases, including hemophilia, sickle cell anemia, Fanconi anemia, Alzheimer's disease, cystic fibrosis, thalassemia, Down syndrome, Tay–Sachs disease, muscular dystrophy, and Huntington's disease.
- Fertilized zygotes are tested for genetic compatibility (human leukocyte antigen (HLA) typing), using preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD), and only zygotes that are compatible with the existing child are implanted.
- In 2005 the clinic created a preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) lab at CIMA clinic, instigating in the genetic analysis of embryos, ovules and spermatozoids.
- His parents conceived him through in-vitro fertilization and preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) so he could donate cord blood to Molly his sister, who was born with a complex kind of anemia, and be free of the disease himself.
- However, inclusion of PGD in the DSM-5 and ICD-11 was thought at risk of being misunderstood as medicalization of grief, reducing its dignity, turning love into pathology and implying that survivors should quickly forget and "get over" the loss.
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