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Introduction: Individual risk assessment of assisted reproductive
technologies is essential for personalized treatment strategies. Genetic
and genomic indicators of the response to stress by cells could provide
individual prognostic indicators for in vitro fertilization (IVF)
success. Such indicators include the copy number of ribosomal genes (rDNA), which
modulates the level of protein synthesis, and the abundance of mitochondrial DNA
(mtDNA), which provides the cell with energy, while the content of telomere
repeats (TRs) indicate the biological age. Materials and Methods: The
contents of the three repeats in DNA isolated from blood leukocytes of 40 women
before and after ovarian stimulation were assayed prior to IVF. Then, we divided
the women into a successful IVF group, IVF+ (N = 17, 7 cases of twins), and a
group of failed cases, IVF– (N = 23). The control group included 17 non-pregnant women with natural childbirth in the past. The
nonradioactive quantitative hybridization (NQH) method was applied to assay the
genome repeat contents. Results: The number of rDNA copies in the IVF+
group was significantly higher than in the IVF– group (p
