Comparative birth weights of singletons born after assisted reproduction and natural conception in previously infertile women

Human Reproduction

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 705-712

  De Geyter, C ^a   De Geyter, M ^a   Steimann, S ^a   Zhang, H ^a   Holzgreve, W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cryopreservation; ICSI; IVF; Parental genomic imprinting; Vanishing twin

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILDBIRTH; CONCEPTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FREEZE THAWING; HOSPITAL DEPARTMENT; HUMAN; INFANT; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; INTRAUTERINE INSEMINATION; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; NEWBORN; PATIENT IDENTIFICATION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEXUAL INTERCOURSE; SWITZERLAND; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

EID: 33644872629     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: 14602350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/dei378     Document Type: Article

References (35)

1. Barlow DP (1997) Competition - a common motif for the imprinting mechanism? EMBO J 16,6899-6905.
2. Bonduelle M, Wennerholm UB, Loft A et al. (2005) A multi-centre cohort study of the physical health of 5-year old children, conceived after intracytoplasmic sperm injection, in vitro fertilization and natural conception. Hum Reprod 20,413-419.
3. Cox GF, Bürger J, Lip V, Mau UA, Sperling K, Wu BL and Horsthemke B (2002) Intracytoplasmic sperm injection may increase the risk of imprinting defects. Am J Hum Genet 71,162-164.
4. De Baun MR, Niemitz E and Feinberg AP (2003) Association of in vitro fertilization with Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome and epigenetic alternations of LIT1 and H19. Am J Hum Genet 72,156-160.
5. De Geyter C (1994) Sterilitätstherapie in der Prämenopause. Ther Umsch Prä-Postmenopause 51,773-777.
6. De Geyter C, De Geyter M, Castro E, Bals-Pratsch M, Nieschlag E and Schneider HPG (1996) Experience with transvaginal ultrasound-guided aspiration of supernumerary follicles for the prevention of multiple pregnancies after ovulation induction and intrauterine insemination. Fertil Steril 65,1163-1168.
7. De Geyter C, De Geyter M and Nieschlag E (1998) Low multiple pregnancy rates and reduced frequency of cancellation after ovulation induction with gonadotropins, if eventual supernumerary follicles are aspirated to prevent polyovulation, J Assist Reprod Genet 15,111-116.
8. De Sutter P, Veldeman L, Kok P, Szymczak N, Van der Elst J and Dhont M (2005) Comparison of outcome of pregnancy after intra-uterine insemination (IUI) and IVF. Hum Reprod 20,1642-1646.
9. Doyle P, Beral V and Maconochie N (1992) Preterm delivery, low birthweight and small-for-gestational-age in liveborn singleton babies resulting from in-vitro fertilization. Hum Reprod 7,425-428.
10. D'Souza SW, Rivlin E, Cadman J, Richards B, Buck P and Lieberman BA (1997) Children conceived by in vitro fertilization after fresh embryo transfer. Arch Dis Child 76: F70-F74.
11. Dumoulin JCM, Derhaag JG, Bras M, Van Montfoort APA, Kester ADM, Evers JLH, Geraedts JPM and Coonen E (2005) Growth rate of human preimplantation embryos is sex dependent after ICSI but not after IVF. Hum Reprod 20,484-491.
12. Ertzeid G and Storeng R (1992) Adverse effects of gonadotrophin treatment on pre- and postimplantation development in mice. J Reprod Fert 96,649-655.
13. Gosden R, Trasler J, Lucifero D and Faddy M (2003) Rare congenital disorders, imprinted genes, and assisted reproductive technology. Lancet 361,1975-1977.
14. Ioannidis G, Sacks G, Reddy N, Seyani L, Margara R, Lavery S and Trew G (2005) Day 14 maternal serum progesterone levels predict pregnancy outcome in IVF/ICSI treatment cycles: A prospective study. Hum Reprod 20,741-746.
15. Isaksson R and Tiitinen A (1998) Obstetric outcome in patients with unexplained infertility: Comparison of treatment-related and spontaneous pregnancies. Acta Obstet Gynecol Scand 77,849-853.
16. Katalinic A, Rösch C and Ludwig M. for the German ICSI Follow-Up Study Group (2004) Pregnancy course and outcome after intracytoplasmic sperm injection: A controlled, prospective cohort study. Fertil Steril 81,1604-1616.
17. Khosla S, Dean W, Brown D, Reik W and Feil R (2001) Culture of preimplantation mouse embryos affects fetal development and the expression of imprinted genes. Biol Reprod 64,918-926.
18. Maher EA (2005) Imprinting and assisted reproductive technology. Hum Mol Genet 14: Review Issue 1: R133-R138.
19. Mann MRW, Lee SS, Doherty AS, Verona RI, Nolen LD, Schultz RM and Bartolomei MS (2004) Selective loss of imprinting in the placenta following preimplantation development in culture. Development 131,3727-3735.
20. Mills W and Moore T (2004) Polyandry, life-history trade-offs and the evolution of imprinting at Mendelian loci. Genetics 168,2317-2327.
21. Niemitz EL and Feinberg AP (2004) Epigenetics and assisted reproductive technology: A call for investigation. Am J Hum Genet 74,599-609.
22. Nuojua-Huttunen S, Gissler M, Martikainen H and Tuomivaara L (1999) Obstetric and perinatal outcome of pregnancies after intrauterine insemination. Hum Reprod 14,2110-2115.
23. Ørstavik KH, Eiklid K, Van Der Hagen CB, Spetalen S, Kierulf K, Skjeldal O and Buiting K (2003) Another case of imprinting defect in a girl with Angelman syndrome who was conceived by intracytoplasmic sperm injection. Am J Hum Genet 72:218-219.
24. Pinborg A, Lidegaard O, la Cour Freiesleben N and Nyboe Andersen A (2005) Consequences of vanishing twins in IVF/ICSI pregnancies. Hum Reprod, in press.
25. Reik W, Dean W and Walter J (2001) Epigenetic reprogramming in mammalian development. Science 293,1089-1093.
26. Reik W, Santos F, Mitsuya K, Morgan H and Dean W (2003) Epigenetic asymmetry in the mammalina zygote and early embryo: Relationship to lineage commitment? Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 358,1403-1409.
27. Rufat P, Olivennes R, de Mouzon J, Dehan M and Frydman R (1994) Task force report on the outcome of pregnancies and children conceived by in vitro fertilization (France: 1987 to 1989). Fertil Steril 61,324-330.
28. Safro E, O'Neill C and Saunders DM (1990) Elevated luteal phase estradiol: progesterone ratio in mice causes implantation failure by creating a uterine environment that suppresses embryonic metabolism. Fertil Steril 54,1150-1153.
29. Schieve LA, Meikle SF, Ferre C, Peterson HB, Jeng G and Wilcox LS (2002) Low and very low birth weight in infants conceived with use of assisted reproductive technology. N Engl J Med 346,731-737.
30. Senn A, Vozzi C, Chanson A, De Grandi P and Germond M (2000) Prospective randomized study of two cryopreservation policies avoiding embryo selection: The pronucleate stage leads to a higher cumulative delivery rate than the early embryo cleavage stage. Fertil Steril 74,946-952.
31. Tan SL, Doyle P, Campbell S, Beral V, Rizk B, Brinsden P, Mason B and Edwards RG (1992) Obstetric outcome of in vitro fertilization pregnancies compared with normally conceived pregnancies. Am J Obstet Gynecol 167,778-784.
32. Thomson F, Shanbhag S, Templeton A and Bhattacharya S (2005) Obstetric outcome in women with subfertility. BJOG 112,632-637.
33. Van der Auwera I and D'Hooghe T (2001) Superovulation of mice delays embryonic and fetal development. Hum Reprod 16,1237-1243.
34. Wang JX, Norman RJ and Kristiansson P (2002) The effect of various infertility treatments on the risk of preterm birth. Hum Reprod 17,945-949.
35. Yokochi T and Robertson KD (2004) Dimethyl sulfoxide stimulates the catalytic activity of de novo DNA methyltransferase 3a (Dnmt3a) in vitro. Bioorg Chem 32,234-243.