Cytogenetic analysis of spontaneous abortions: Comparison of techniques and assessment of the incidence of confined placental mosaicism

American Journal of Medical Genetics

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 297-301

  Griffin, Darren K ^a,c   Millie, Elise A ^a   Redline, Raymond W ^b   Hassold, Terry J ^a   Zaragoza, Michael V ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF CLEVELAND   (United States)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Confined placental mosaicism; Cytogenetics; Direct preparations; Long term culture; Spontaneous abortions

Indexed keywords

ANEUPLOIDY; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CYTOTROPHOBLAST; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MOSAICISM; PLACENTA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION;

ABORTION, SPONTANEOUS; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CYTOGENETICS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; KARYOTYPING; MOSAICISM; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; SEX RATIO;

EID: 0030770715     PISSN: 01487299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-8628(19971031)72:3<297::AID-AJMG9>3.0.CO;2-O     Document Type: Article

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