The presence of multinucleated blastomeres in human embryos is correlated with chromosomal abnormalities

Human Reproduction

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 1492-1498

  Kligman, Isaac ^b   Benadiva, Claudio ^b   Alikani, Mina ^a,b   Munné, Santiago ^a,b  

^a SAINT BARNABAS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Embryo biopsy; FISH; Mosaicism; Multinucleation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLASTOMERE; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO (ANATOMY); EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; MULTINUCLEAR CELL;

EID: 0029832945     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.humrep.a019424     Document Type: Article

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