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Table 1 Current and imminent technologies for preimplantation genetic diagnosis

From: Preimplantation genetic diagnosis guided by single-cell genomics

Indications

PCR

FISH

aCGH

SNP array

NGS

Sex selection (social or X-linked disease)

Yes

Yes*

Yes

Yes

Yes

Aneuploidy screening

Yes

Yes*; locus specific

Yes*; generic

Yes; generic

Yes; generic

DNA copy-number aberrations

Yes

Yes*; locus specific

Yes; generic

Yes; generic

Yes; generic

Carriership of balanced chromosome rearrangements

No

No

No

Yes

Yes

Single-gene disorder

Yes*; family specific

No

No

Yes; generic

Yes; generic

De novo segmental copy-number aberrations

No

No

Yes; generic

Yes; generic

Yes; generic

De novo base mutations

No

No

No

No

Yes; generic

Mitochondrial mutations

Yes*; family specific

No

No

No

Yes; generic

  1. The genetic conditions that can be diagnosed by each methodology are indicated, with the current methodology in common practice marked with an asterisk. aCGH, array comparative genomic hybridization; FISH, fluorescent in situ hybridization; NGS, next-generation sequencing; SNP, single-nucleotide polymorphism.