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Frequency of mosaicism points towards mutation-prone early cleavage cell divisions.
Chad Harland, Carole Charlier, Latifa Karim…·Michel Georges
Cattle pedigrees indicate up to ~30% of de novo mutations in male gametes and ~50% in female gametes arise during early cleavage divisions, leaving parental mosaicism and sibling sharing.