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Monozygotic twinning: is it related to apoptosis in the embryo?
1 Jan 2002
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Dear Sir, The advent of prolonged in-vitro preimplantation embryo culture using sequential culture media (Gardner et al., 1998) has permitted many IVF laboratories to successfully adopt blastocyst transfer. Unfortunately, an unexpected side effect of this success has seen a small but significant appearance of monozygotic twinning. This has now been described by several authors (Peramo et al., 1999; Behr et al.,...
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