Paternal transcripts for glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase and adenosine deaminase are first detectable in the human preimplantation embryo at the three- to four-cell stage

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 442-448

  Taylor, Deborah M ^a   Ray, Pierre F ^a   Ao, Asangla ^a   Winston, Robert M L ^a   Handyside, Alan H ^a  

^a HAMMERSMITH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

ADA; G6PD; Human preimplantation embryos; Paternal expression; RT PCR

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE DEAMINASE; GLUCOSE 6 PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE;

ARTICLE; EMBRYO; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME; GLUCOSE 6 PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE DEFICIENCY; HETEROZYGOSITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PREIMPLANTATION EMBRYO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ADENOSINE DEAMINASE; BASE SEQUENCE; BLASTOCYST; DNA PRIMERS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FATHERS; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GLUCOSEPHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE; HUMANS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; X CHROMOSOME;

EID: 0030830374     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2795(199712)48:4<442::AID-MRD4>3.0.CO;2-Q     Document Type: Article

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