Qi Xi

No ORCID on file · 2 papers in corpus

observational 2021

Assisted reproductive technology and birth defects in a Chinese birth cohort study

The Lancet regional health. Western Pacific ·doi:10.1016/j.lanwpc.2020.100090

BACKGROUND: It has been consistently shown in several meta-analyses that infants born after ART have an excess of birth defects compared with those after spontaneous conception, however, the prevalence of birth defects among ART offspring i…

observational 2021

Association of assisted reproductive technology, germline de novo mutations and congenital heart defects in a prospective birth cohort study

Cell research ·doi:10.1038/s41422-021-00521-w

Emerging evidence suggests that children conceived through assisted reproductive technology (ART) have a higher risk of congenital heart defects (CHDs) even when there is no family history. De novo mutation (DNM) is a well-known cause of sp…