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Twin pregnancies with diploid hydatidiform mole and co-existing normal fetus may originate from one oocyte.
Human reproduction (Oxford, England) - 1 Sept 2008
Niemann Isa, Bolund Lars, Sunde Lone
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BACKGROUND: In twin pregnancies comprising a hydatidiform mole and a normal co-fetus, the ploidy of the mole is almost exclusively reported as diploid and very rarely as triploid. We aimed at understanding this unbalanced distribution of diploid and triploid moles in twin pregnancies by investigating the number of gametes involved. METHODS: Using polymorphic DNA markers, we compared the alleles of seven moles...
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