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Chaos in the embryo

Nature Medicine volume 15, pages 490–491 (2009)Cite this article

The chromosomes of human embryos seem to be more unstable than previously thought. An analysis of embryos derived from in vitro fertilization reveals high rates of structural abnormalities (pages 577–583).

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Figure 1: An eight-cell embryo illustrating the types of mosaicism reported in Vanneste et al.7.

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