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Table 6 Influence of the number of cloning rounds on the cloning outcome

From: Factors influencing the efficiency of generating genetically engineered pigs by nuclear transfer: multi-factorial analysis of a large data set

No. of cloning rounds

Chance for pregnancy

Chance for delivery

Cloning efficiency (%)

No. of live cloned piglets

No. of healthy cloned piglets

1

1.3

3.4

4.4

3.2

1.7

2

1.0

6.8

3.5*

2.2*

0.5*

3

3.2

1.7

2.9*

3.1

1.6

  1. One cloning round was used as the reference category. For details on the statistical analysis and definition of the cloning benchmarks listed, please see Methods.* Statistically significant differences (p < 0.05).