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Correlating nuclear error phenotype with good quality blastocyst formation rate (BFR) using contingency tables and unadjusted odds ratio.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      An overall nuclear error rate of 47.1% was observed in two-cell embryos. The most frequent error was multi-nucleation (14.2%) followed by mixed error (11%), micro-nucleation (8.6%), bi-nucleation (7.4%) and split nucleation (5.8%). Blastocyst formation rate (BFR) was reduced in embryos with nuclear errors, 46.2% for embryos with one cell affected, 27.6% for embryos with both cells affected, compared to 58.6% for mononucleated cells,\n                      <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u2009&lt;\u20090.001 for both. Binucleated embryos were as likely as mononucleated embryos to become clinically useful blastocysts (56.8% vs 58.6%, n.s., unadjusted OR 0.94), whereas all the other phenotypes were less likely to develop into good quality blastocysts. The worst outcome was noted for embryos with split nucleation, with just 12.4% BFR, OR 0.12 (0\u201308-0.21),\n                      <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u2009&lt;\u20090.001.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Nuclear errors are common at the two-cell stage. Overall, presence of nuclear errors reduces the likelihood of becoming good quality blastocysts. 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