Blood chimerism in a girl with Down syndrome and possible freemartin effect leading to aplasia of the Müllerian derivatives

Human Reproduction

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1339-1343

  Bogdanova, N ^a   Siebers, U ^a   Kelsch, R ^a   Markoff, A ^a   Ropke A ^a   Exeler, R ^a   Tsokas, J ^b   Wieacker, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b ST FRANZISKUS HOSPITAL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chimerism; Down syndrome; Freemartinism; M llerian derivatives aplasia

Indexed keywords

APLASIA; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CASE REPORT; CHIMERA; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; DOWN SYNDROME; FEMALE; FIBROBLAST; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENITAL SYSTEM; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MUELLERIAN DUCT; NEWBORN ANEMIA; UTERINE TUBE; UTERINE TUBE AGENESIS; UTERUS APLASIA;

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EID: 77951124092     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: 14602350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/deq048     Document Type: Article

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