Fertility and Sterility
Volume 90, Issue 1 , Pages 49-55 , July 2008

Mechanisms giving rise to triploid zygotes during assisted reproduction

  • Bernd E. Rosenbusch, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Bernd E. Rosenbusch, Ph.D., Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, University of Ulm, Prittwitzstrasse 43, D-89075 Ulm, Germany (FAX: 49-731-500-58664).

Received 10 April 2007 ,Revised 4 June 2007 ,Accepted 4 June 2007.

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doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2007.06.031

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