True polyploid meiosis in the human male

Abstract Polyploidy does not usually occur in germinal cells of mammals and other higher vertebrates. We describe a unique example of mosaic autotetraploidy in the meiosis of a human male. Although the original observations were made in the late 1960s, we did not publish them at that time, because w...

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Main Authors: Peter L. Pearson, Kamlesh Madan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Genética 2018-05-01
Series:Genetics and Molecular Biology
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1415-47572018005009101&lng=en&tlng=en