Twinning rate and reproduction failures

Lazar, P.; Hemon, D.; Berger, C.

Progress in Clinical and Biological Research 24 Pt B: 125-132

1978


ISSN/ISBN: 0361-7742
PMID: 724705
Document Number: 137443
Spontaneous abortion of one of the zygotes is shown to explain some of the main epidemiologic features of dizygotic twinning: its decrease at higher maternal ages and its spatial and secular variations. Conversely, the dizygotic twinning rate offers a precious tool for the study of the etiology of reproduction failures.

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