Chromosome abnormalities in human embryos

Human Reproduction Update

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 842-855

  Munné, Santiago ^a   Cohen, Jacques ^a  

^a Center for Reproductive Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Aneuploidy; FSH; Mosaicism; Multinucleation fragmentation

Indexed keywords

ANEUPLOIDY; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME MOSAICISM; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FERTILIZATION; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; HAPLOIDY; HUMAN; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MATERNAL AGE; NUMERICAL CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; POLYPLOIDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRONUCLEUS; TEMPERATURE; ZYGOTE;

ANEUPLOIDY; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; CLEAVAGE STAGE, OVUM; EMBRYO; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; HUMANS; KARYOTYPING; MOSAICISM; ZYGOTE;

EID: 0032455873     PISSN: 13554786     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humupd/4.6.842     Document Type: Article

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