Evidence of Selection against Complex Mitotic-Origin Aneuploidy during Preimplantation Development.

Whole-chromosome imbalances affect over half of early human embryos and are the leading cause of pregnancy loss. While these errors frequently arise in oocyte meiosis, many such whole-chromosome abnormalities affecting cleavage-stage embryos are the result of chromosome missegregation occurring duri...

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Main Authors: Rajiv C McCoy, Zachary P Demko, Allison Ryan, Milena Banjevic, Matthew Hill, Styrmir Sigurjonsson, Matthew Rabinowitz, Dmitri A Petrov
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-10-01
Series:PLoS Genetics
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4619652?pdf=render