The phenomenon of monozygosity: Spontaneous zygotic splitting

Multiple Pregnancy: Epidemiology, Gestation, and Perinatal Outcome

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 94-101

  Bomsel Helmreich, O ^a   Al Mufti, O W ^a  

^a INSERM   (France)

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