Mitochondrial DNA rearrangements in human oocytes and embryos

Molecular Human Reproduction

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 927-933

  Barritt, Jason A ^a   Brenner, Carol A ^a   Cohen, Jacques ^a   Matt, Dennis W ^b  

^a SAINT BARNABAS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

DNA rearrangements; Embryos; Mitochondrial deletions; Mitochondrial DNA; Oocytes

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE INSERTION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENOME; GERMINAL VESICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MATERNAL AGE; METAPHASE; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ADULT; AGING; BASE SEQUENCE; BLASTOCYST; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HUMANS; MATERNAL AGE; MITOCHONDRIA; OOCYTES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 0032887927     PISSN: 13609947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molehr/5.10.927     Document Type: Article

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