Parental age-related aneuploidy in human germ cells and offspring: A story of past and present

Environmental and Molecular Mutagenesis

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 211-236

  Eichenlaub Ritter, Ursula ^a  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Age; Aneuploidy; Environment; Oocyte; Sperm; Spindle

Indexed keywords

ANEUPLOIDY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CYTOGENETICS; ENVIRONMENT; GERM CELL; HUMAN; MEIOSIS; OOCYTE; PARENTAL AGE; SPERM; TRISOMY;

AGE FACTORS; ANEUPLOIDY; BLASTOCYST; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; CHROMOSOME DISORDERS; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 16; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 18; DOWN SYNDROME; FEMALE; GERM CELLS; HUMANS; MALE; MATERNAL AGE; MEIOSIS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, GENETIC; MOSAICISM; OOCYTES; PREGNANCY; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SEX CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; SPERMATOZOA; TRISOMY;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0029836894     PISSN: 08936692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2280(1996)28:3<211::AID-EM6>3.0.CO;2-G     Document Type: Conference Paper

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