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Intrauterine mortality

Number of conceptions expected to reach each stage of pregnancy

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J Kline, Conception to birth—epidemiology of prenatal development, Monographs in Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Oxford University Press, Oxford (1989).

Intrauterine mortality table

Weeks after fertilization Ongoing pregnancies Chromosome abnormalities
0 100  
1 82 Trisomy 17
Autosomal monosomy
2 50  
3   Trisomy 16, tetraploidy
4   Trisomy 22
5   Triploidy
6 44 Monosomy X
10 40.5  
14 38.6  
18 38.0  
22 37.6  
26 37.5  
30 37.4  
34 37.3  
38 37.1  
Live births 36.9  

Modified from Leridon H (1977) Human fertility. Chicago Press.