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The cytogenetics of spontaneous abortion in humans

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Early Pregnancy Loss

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Human spontaneous abortions have been the subject of many cytogenetic investigations because they are a source of a large number and variety of abnormal chromosome complements (karyotypes). For the same reason, they can be very informative material for the epidemiologist, as Professor Alberman has already demonstrated.(1)

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  1. Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Northern General Hospital, Herries Road, Sheffield, S5 7AU, UK

    Frank Sharp MD, FRCOG

  2. Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, St Mary’s Hospital, Praed Street, London, W2 1PG, UK

    Richard W. Beard MB, BChir(Cantab), MD, FRCOG

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Creasy, R. (1988). The cytogenetics of spontaneous abortion in humans. In: Sharp, F., Beard, R.W. (eds) Early Pregnancy Loss. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-1658-5_39

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