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Large Offspring Syndrome

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Large Offspring Syndrome
A constellation of postnatal defects seen in mammals cloned by nuclear transfer—most such clones are stillborn


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There is also a greater incidence of problems at birth, such as Large Offspring Syndrome, in which oversized foetuses develop in the womb that can cause suffering and even death for both mother and calf.
After all, although animals created through in vitro fertilization sometimes suffer large offspring syndrome, there's no evidence that human test-tube babies do.
 
 
 
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