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.