Fertility and Sterility
Volume 82, Issue 3 , Pages 712-717 , September 2004

Identification of meiotic anomalies with multiplex fluorescence in situ hybridization: Preliminary results

Received 19 September 2003 ,Revised 4 February 2004 ,Accepted 4 February 2004.

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 Supported by Project 161275 (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain), Project DGR-2001 SGR-00202 (Generalitat de Catalunya, Spain), and Project SAF 2003-04312 (Dirección General de Investigación, Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología, Spain).

PII: S0015-0282(04)01078-7

doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2004.02.122

Fertility and Sterility
Volume 82, Issue 3 , Pages 712-717 , September 2004

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