Monthly fecundity rates

Range 30 to 40 %
Organism Human Homo sapiens
Reference Jianbin Wang, H. Christina Fan, Barry Behr and Stephen R. Quake Genome-wide Single-Cell Analysis of Recombination Activity and De Novo Mutation Rates in Human Sperm, Cell 150, 402–412, July 20, 2012 p.407 right column 3rd paragraphPubMed ID22817899
Method Researchers collected a sperm sample from a 40-year-old Caucasian individual (P0) whose genome has been sequenced (Pushkarev et al., 2009), clinically annotated (Ashley et al., 2010), and haplotype phased (Fan et al., 2011).
Comments Human reproduction is well known to be inefficient, with monthly fecundity rates of only 30%–40%, and a large number of conceptions fail before the women are aware of the pregnancy (Macklon et al., 2002).
Entered by Uri M
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