The purpose of sperm sorting is to help couples conceive a child that is the gender of their choice. If the sperm that fertilizes the egg carries an X chromosome, the conception will result in a female embryo. Y-carrying sperm will result in a male embryo. There is typically a very small difference in the weight of sperm based on which sex chromosome it carries. Gender selection sperm sorting technology relies on this difference to separate sperm using a centrifuge.<\/p>\n
Request Information<\/a><\/p>\n An FDA trial of the Microsort method was discontinued prematurely and is not approved for use in general fertility treatment<\/a>.<\/p>\n Patients who wish to be more certain of the outcome of gender selection can choose Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis (PGD)<\/a>. This is an optional procedure that can be carried out as part of an IVF cycle<\/a>. A single cell is removed from the embryo as it develops in an IVF dish and evaluated for the presence of Y (male) chromosomal markers. The PGD process is 99% accurate making it the recommended technique for patients at Dr. Jain’s<\/a> Santa Monica Fertility Center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The purpose of sperm sorting is to help couples conceive a child that is the gender of their choice. If the sperm that fertilizes the egg carries an X chromosome,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":505,"parent":175,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"yst_prominent_words":[855,416,131,85,415,149,731,856,342,778,345,417,811,697,810],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.santamonicafertility.hk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/179"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.santamonicafertility.hk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.santamonicafertility.hk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.santamonicafertility.hk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.santamonicafertility.hk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.santamonicafertility.hk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5446,"href":"https:\/\/www.santamonicafertility.hk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/179\/revisions\/5446"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.santamonicafertility.hk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/175"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.santamonicafertility.hk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.santamonicafertility.hk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.santamonicafertility.hk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}What is MicroSort?<\/h3>\n
An Alternative to Sperm Sorting<\/h3>\n