What if there is a 'sunset clause' on the Y chromosome?

Medical Journal of Australia

Volumn 171, Issue 11-12, 1999, Pages 660-662

  Trounson, Alan O ^a,b,c  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Monash Inst of Repro and Devmt   (Australia)

^c MONASH MEDICAL CENTRE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHROMOSOME MUTATION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENETIC DISORDER; HUMAN; INFERTILITY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; PHENOTYPE; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; REPRODUCTION; SHORT SURVEY; Y CHROMOSOME;

EID: 0033530635     PISSN: 0025729X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1999.tb123843.x     Document Type: Short Survey

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