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Diploid Egg


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Hasan Burjaq
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An oocyte with two polar bodies.Could it be a diploid egg?
Submitted by: Contact Hasan Burjaq
IVF Unit , WH , Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar P.O.Box 21497

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This egg was suspected to be diploid because after injection with one sperm , a 3PN zygote resulted.

It subsequently cleaved to 2-cell stage 48 hrs after ICSI.

It later cleaved to 8-cell stage (with some fragments and some blastomeres of irregular sizes by 72 hrs after ICSI.
 

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Kimball Pomeroy, Ph.D



Kimball Pomeroy, Ph.D said on 07 February 2006

"I recently had a patient with 5 eggs with 2 polar bodies. This was a PGD patient and the eggs were ICSI'd. Two of the 5 eggs fertilized and both had three pronuclei. Unfortunately this was a single gene disorder and so ploidy was not determined."

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