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Diploid sperm and the origin of triploidy
1 Jan 2002
Abstract excerpt
Trisomy 16, the 45,X monosomy and triploidy are the more frequent chromosome anomalies in spontaneous abortions. Earlier estimations, based on frequencies of diandric triploidy at conception, resulted in a good correlation with the frequencies of diploid sperm in infertile males (up to 1.9%). Recent data have shown that most diandric triploids originate by dispermy, although 8.3% of them are produced by diploid...
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