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To have contributed to the results we report for maternal exposure, those mothers who did not donate blood, compared to the mothers who did, would have had to have had either lower PCB levels and a lower sex ratio among their last children or higher PCB levels and a higher sex ratio among their children.
Although numerous hypotheses have been proposed to describe the etiology of aneuploidy in human gametes, the only steadfast association remains maternal age [ 1 2 ] . Besides this association, very little information is available about the numerous potential mechanisms that may disrupt normal chromosome segregation in oocytes.
Maternal and gap gene factors together trigger pair rule gene expression in 7 alternating stripes, which in turn regulate segment polarity and homeotic gene expression in 14 stripes.
Elongation of the conceptus is a short-lived phenomenon that results from cellular remodeling and migration, rather than through cellular hyperplasia [ 3 ] . Secretion of the conceptus produced maternal recognition signal, estrogen, occurs simultaneously with rapid elongation of the trophoblastic membrane [ 4 5 ] . Conceptus release of estrogen induces an acute phase response by the endometrium that alters the uterine environment, which may be unfavorable for less developed littermates [ 1 6 ] . Because the pig has a diffuse epitheliochorial type of placentation, rapid trophoblastic elongation provides an essential biological function to satisfy the conceptus' necessity for maximal placental-uterine contact to ensure adequate nutrient exchange throughout gestation [ 2 ] .
With the exception of giant, which is too ill-defined to model, these are all the maternal/gap genes at the top of the segmentation gene hierarchy.
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