Table 4.

Chromosomal composition of parthenogenetic 8-cell embryos activated using different protocols.

	Embryos Evaluated	Informative embryos	2n	3n	4n	Mixoploid (2n/4n)	Other	Total Abnormal
IVF	22	17	16 (94%)	0	1 (6%)	0	0	1 (6%)a
mPLCZ1	28	16	12 (75%)	0	4 (25%)	0	0	4 (25%)ab
Iono/DMAP	26	20	6 (30%)	0	10 (50%)	2 (10%)	2 (10%)	14 (70%)c
Iono/CHX	28	18	12 (67%)	1 (5%)	5 (26%)	0	1	6 (33%)b
Total	104	71

^a,b,c: Percentages not sharing a common letter within experiment are statistically different (P < 0.05, Chi-square test).

A total of 167 metaphases were evaluated (2.3 per informative embryo).