Cytogenetic causes for recurrent spontaneous abortions - An experience of 742 couples (1484 cases)

Indian Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 94-98

  Dubey, S ^a   Chowdhury, M R ^a   Prahlad, B ^a   Kumar, V ^a   Mathur, R ^a   Hamilton, S ^a   Kabra, M ^a   Menon, P S N ^a   Verma, I C ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Chromosomal abnormalities; Reciprocal translocation; Recurrent spontaneous abortion; Robertsonian translocation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CHROMOSOME DELETION; CHROMOSOME NUMBER; CHROMOSOME POLYMORPHISM; CHROMOSOME REARRANGEMENT; CHROMOSOME VARIANT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOGENETICS; FEMALE; FETUS DEATH; HUMAN; MALE; RECIPROCAL CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; RECURRENT ABORTION; REVIEW; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; STRUCTURAL CHROMOSOME ABERRATION;

ROBERTSONIA;

EID: 32444434958     PISSN: 09716866     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0971-6866.16809     Document Type: Review

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