Inventors:
Alan Copperman - New York NY, US
Lawrence Grunfeld - New Rochelle NY, US
Tanmoy Mukherjee - Glen Ridge NJ, US
Benjamin Sandler - Cresskill NJ, US
International Classification:
C12Q 1/68, G01N 33/53
Abstract:
The present invention provides methods to determine the sex of an embryo by detecting the presence of a protein associated with the Y chromosome in a sample of culture medium obtained by sampling a culture medium containing the embryo. The present invention further provides methods to identify a protein associated with the Y chromosome as a protein present in a sample of culture medium obtained by sampling a culture medium containing a male embryo, but absent in a sample of culture medium obtained by sampling a culture medium containing a female embryo.