Methods for diagnosing PGD and NGS

One of the many VittoriaVita’s advantages is the possibility of conducting preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD). PGD avoids the risks of transferring to a future child of a disease even before the embryo is transferred to the uterine cavity. To avoid genetic risks, a couple is examined for genes with pathologies. Preimplantation diagnosis is carried out on a special, very accurate instrumentation. There are two main types of such diagnostics, depending on what problem you need to detect. If there is a suspicion of chromosome imbalance, a fluorescent microscope is used, and a polymerase chain reaction is used to determine the gene mutation, which examines the DNA. The procedure does not harm the embryo, because only one cell is taken, which does not interfere with further development. But PGD also makes it possible to determine the gender of the unborn child.

We also provide an embryo examinations using the NGS method. The PGD NGS method uses the most advanced techniques of sequencing the human genome for embryo examination and opens up new diagnostic capabilities. The method is used in the framework of in vitro fertilization and allows to obtain complex information on embryonic DNA about diseases or genetic mutations. This gives doctors an extraordinary chance to help those couples who are at increased risk of genetic anomalies in the fetus.