Epigenetic deregulation of genomic imprinting in human disorders and following assisted reproduction

Birth Defects Research Part C - Embryo Today: Reviews

Volumn 75, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 81-97

  Arnaud, Philippe ^a,b   Feil, Robert ^a,b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b INSTITUT DE GÉNÉTIQUE MOLÉCULAIRE DE MONTPELLIER   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLIN DEPENDENT KINASE 1; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE 3A; HISTONE; METHYL CPG BINDING PROTEIN 2; PROTEIN UBE3A; SOMATOMEDIN B; SOMATOMEDIN B RECEPTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR DLX5; UBIQUITIN PROTEIN LIGASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNTRANSLATED RNA; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

ALBRIGHT SYNDROME; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; BECKWITH WIEDEMANN SYNDROME; BIRTH DEFECT; CHROMOSOMAL LOCALIZATION; CPG ISLAND; DIABETES MELLITUS; DNA METHYLATION; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EPIGENETICS; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GENOME IMPRINTING; GERM LINE; HAPPY PUPPET SYNDROME; HUMAN; HYDATIDIFORM MOLE; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INHERITANCE; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; MOUSE; NEWBORN DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PRADER WILLI SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOHYPOPARATHYROIDISM; RETT SYNDROME; REVIEW; SILVER RUSSELL SYNDROME; SOMATIC CELL; TRANSIENT NEONATAL DIABETES MELLITUS;

ALLELES; DISEASES IN TWINS; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FEMALE; GENETIC DISEASES, INBORN; GENOMIC IMPRINTING; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED; RETT SYNDROME; RISK;

EID: 23844547591     PISSN: 1542975X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bdrc.20039     Document Type: Review

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