Bovine SNRPN methylation imprint in oocytes and day 17 in vitro-produced and somatic cell nuclear transfer embryos

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 75, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 531-538

  Lucifero, Diana ^a,b,d   Suzuki, João ^c   Bordignon, Vilceu ^c,e   Martel, Josée ^a,b   Vigneault, Christian ^c   Therrien, Jacinthe ^c   Filion, France ^c   Smith, Lawrence C ^c   Trasler, Jacquetta M ^a,b  

^a RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF THE MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^d BABRAHAM INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^e MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Assisted reproductive technology; Bovine; DNA methylation; Early development; Embryo; Epigenetic; Gamete biology; Genomic imprinting; In vitro culture; In vitro fertilization; SCNT; SNRPN; Somatic cell nuclear transfer

Indexed keywords

BISULFITE; DNA; METHYL GROUP;

ALLELE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CATTLE; CELL NUCLEUS TRANSPLANTATION; COGNITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CPG ISLAND; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA METHYLATION; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO GROWTH; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FETUS; GAMETE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENOME IMPRINTING; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYTE; PLACENTA FUNCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SNRPN GENE; SOMATIC CELL GENETICS; SOMATIC CELL NUCLEAR TRANSFER;

ANIMALS; AUTOANTIGENS; BASE SEQUENCE; CATTLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CLONING, ORGANISM; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA METHYLATION; EMBRYO; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OOCYTES; PREGNANCY; RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS, SMALL NUCLEAR; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SPERMATOZOA;

ANIMALIA; BOS TAURUS;

EID: 33749069108     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.106.051722     Document Type: Article

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