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Aberrant Karyotypes and Spontaneous Abortion in a Japanese Family

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CHROMOSOME aberrations involving trisomy, monosomy and translocations may be aetiologically related to-spontaneous abortion in humans1–3. We describe here a family in which translocations seem to be associated with repeated spontaneous abortions.

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  1. Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Hiroshima University School of Medicine,

    TETSUJI KADOTANI & KOSO OHAMA

  2. Cytogenetics Laboratory, Department of Clinical Laboratories, Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission, Hiroshima, Japan

    TOSHIO SOFUNI & HOWARD B. HAMILTON

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KADOTANI, T., OHAMA, K., SOFUNI, T. et al. Aberrant Karyotypes and Spontaneous Abortion in a Japanese Family. Nature 225, 735–737 (1970). https://doi.org/10.1038/225735a0

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