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Zuzana Holubcová1, Martyn Blayney2, Kay Elder2

  • 1Medical Research Council, Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Francis Crick Avenue, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0QH, UK.

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|June 6, 2015
PubMed
まとめ

人間の卵子にはしばしばアヌプロイド性があり,妊娠中絶や遺伝的障害を引き起こす. 私たちの研究は,卵細胞分裂,特にスパインドルアセンブリにおける染色体エラーが,これらの分離欠陥の原因であることを明らかにしています.

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