Study Reveals the Genetic Origins of an Inherited Form of Female Infertility (1 of 1) (IMAGE)

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Study Reveals the Genetic Origins of an Inherited Form of Female Infertility (1 of 1)

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Microscopic images of egg cells retrieved from a family with inherited female infertility. All of the cells died within 30 hours after fertilization with sperm (bottom row). This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Mar. 27, 2019, issue of Science Translational Medicine, published by AAAS. The paper, by Q. Sang at Fudan University in Shanghai, China; and colleagues was titled, "A pannexin 1 channelopathy causes human oocyte death."

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Q. Sang<i> et al., Science Translational Medicine </i>(2019)

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