Sperm DNA and embryo development

Human Preimplantation Embryo Selection

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 325-335

  Sakkas, Denny ^a   Seli, Emre ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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