Instability in the transmission of the myotonic dystrophy CTG repeat in human oocytes and preimplantation embryos

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 86, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 98-105

  Dean, Nicola L ^a   Tan, Seang Lin ^a   Ao, Asangla ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

CTG repeat instability; Human embryos; myotonic dystrophy; repeat expansion

Indexed keywords

MYOTONIC DYSTROPHY PROTEIN KINASE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CASE REPORT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEVELOPMENT; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GERMINAL VESICLE; HUMAN; LYMPHOCYTE; MYOTONIC DYSTROPHY; OOCYTE; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREIMPLANTATION EMBRYO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT;

ADULT; BLASTOCYST; CELLS, CULTURED; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; HUMANS; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHIES; OOCYTES; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT EXPANSION; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 33745484606     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2005.12.025     Document Type: Article

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