Patient information from Hollywood Fertility Centre

PGD for inherited disease

Preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) was developed specifically for the identification of embryos with genetic abnormalities.

Sydney IVF has developed tests for more than 130 inherited diseases.

  ABO blood type incompatability
  Alagille syndrome
  Alpers disease
  alpha 1 anti-trypsin
  alpha-thalassemia
  Alport syndrome
  aniridia
  anti-Kell antibodies
  Becker muscular dystrophy
  beta-thalassemia
  blepharophimosis ptosis epicanthus inversus
  breast cancer, gene 1
  breast cancer, gene 2
  carbamoyl phosphate synthetase deficiency
  central core disease
  cerebral arteriopathy (Cadasil)
  Charcot-Marie-Tooth syndrome 1A
  Charcot-Marie-Tooth syndrome 1B
  Chronic granulomatosis disease (CGD)
  cleidocranial dysplasia
  congenital adrenal hyperplasia
  congenital disorder of glycosylation
  congenital nephrotic syndrome
  connexin 26
  Crigler-Najjar syndrome I
  Crouzon syndrome
  cystic fibrosis
  Czech dysplasia
  Dejerine-Sottas syndrome
  Duchenne muscular dystrophy
  early onset Alzheimer disease
  early onset torsion dystonia
  E-cadherin
  ectodermal dysplasia
  Ellis-van Creveld syndrome
  Emery Dreifuss muscular dystrophy
  epidermolysis bullosa, dominant dystrophic
  epidermolysis bullosa, Herlitz junctional, gene 1
  epidermolysis bullosa, Herlitz junctional, gene 2
  epidermolytic palmoplantar keratosis
  facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy
  familial adenomatous polyposis
  familial amytrophic lateral sclerosis (Lou Gehrig's disease)
  Fechtner syndrome
  fragile X
  fumarase deficiency
  galactosemia
  Gaucher disease type 2
  glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase
  glycogen storage disease 1b
  Goldberg-Shprintzen syndrome
  Gorlin syndrome
  haemophilia A
  haemophilia B
  hereditary non polyposis colon cancer 2
  hereditary spherocytosis
  Hirschsprung's disease
  HLA match for Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome
  HLA match with beta thalassemia
  HLA match with diamond blackfan anemia
  HLA match with hyper IgM
  HLA match with sickle cell anemia
  HLA matching
  Holt Oram Syndrome
  Hunter syndrome (mucopolysaccharidosis II A)
  Huntington disease
  Hyper IgM
  hypochondroplasia
  hypophosphatasia
  hypophosphatemic rickets
  incontinentia pigmenti
  infantile neuroaxonal dystrophy
  juvenile neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis
  juvenile retinoschisis
  late infantile neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis(Batten disease)
  Lowe oculocerebrorenal syndrome
  Marfan syndrome
  medium-chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiency
  medullary thyroid carcinoma (RET)
  metachromatic leukodystrophy
  mucopolysaccharidosis III B
  multiple endocrine neoplasia 2A
  multiple hereditary exotoses
  myotonic muscular dystrophy
  myotubular myopathy
  nail-patella syndrome
  nemaline myopathy
  nephrogenic diabetes insipidus
  neurofibromatosis types 1
  neurofibromatosis types 2
  Norrie disease
  oculocutaneous albinism
  ornitrine transcarbamylase deficiency
  osteogenesis imperfecta type 1
  palmoplantar hyperkeratosis
  Pendred syndrome
  pericentric inversion of X
  polycystic kidney disease, autosomal dominant, gene 1
  polycystic kidney disease, autosomal dominant, gene 2
  polycystic kidney disease, autosomal recessive
  progressive familial intrahepatic cholestasis
  proximal myotonic myopathy
  psoriasis, susceptibility gene
  pulmonary alveolar proteinosis
  retinoblastoma
  rhesus D disease
  Saethre-Chotzen syndrome
  Sandhoff disease
  sickle-cell anaemia
  Simpson Golabi Behmel syndrome
  spastic paraplegia
  spinal muscular atrophy 1
  spinal muscular atrophy 2
  spinal muscular atrophy 3
  split foot malformation
  Stickler syndrome
  sulfite oxidase deficiency
  thyroid cancer
  translocations - various
  transthyretin amyloidosis
  Treacher-Collins syndrome
  tuberous sclerosis, gene 1
  tuberous sclerosis, gene 2
  Ullrich congenital muscular dystrophy
  vitelliform macular dystrophy
  von Hippel-Lindau disease
  Wilms tumour
  Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome
  Wolman disease
  X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy
  X-linked choroideremia
  Zellweger syndrome