Genetic and epigenetic risks of intracytoplasmic sperm injection method

Asian Journal of Andrology

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 643-673

  Georgiou, Ioannis ^a   Syrrou, Maria ^a   Pardalidis, Nicolaos ^a   Karakitsios, Konstantinos ^a   Mantzavinos, Themis ^a   Giotitsas, Nikolaos ^a   Loutradis, Dimitrios ^b   Dimitriadis, Fotis ^a   Saito, Motoaki ^b   Miyagawa, Ikuo ^b   Tzoumis, Pavlos ^a   Sylakos, Anastasios ^a   Kanakas, Nikolaos ^a   Moustakareas, Theodoros ^a   Baltogiannis, Dimitrios ^a   Touloupides, Stavros ^a   Giannakis, Dimitrios ^a   Fatouros, Michael ^a   Sofikitis, Nikolaos ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^b TOTTORI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Epigenetic risks; Intracytoplasmic sperm injection; Male infertility; Qenetic risks; Testis

Indexed keywords

TRANSMEMBRANE CONDUCTANCE REGULATOR;

ASTHENOSPERMIA; AUTOSOME ABERRATION; AZOOSPERMIA; BLASTOMERE; CHROMOSOME DELETION Y; CHROMOSOME INVERSION; CONGENITAL DISORDER; DNA METHYLATION; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EPIGENETICS; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FETUS DEATH; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; FRAGILE X SYNDROME; GENETIC COUNSELING; GENETIC DISORDER; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENOME IMPRINTING; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HYPOGONADISM; HYPOSPADIAS; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; KALLMANN SYNDROME; KARTAGENER SYNDROME; KARYOTYPE 47,XXY; KENNEDY DISEASE; KLINEFELTER SYNDROME; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; MENTAL DEVELOPMENT; MYOTONIC DYSTROPHY; NONHUMAN; OLIGOSPERMIA; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; REVIEW; ROBERTSONIAN CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; SERTOLI CELL; SEX CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON ABNORMALITY; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; VAS DEFERENS; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; X CHROMOSOME ABERRATION;

ABNORMALITIES; ANIMALS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; CHROMOSOME DELETION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FEMALE; GENOMIC IMPRINTING; HAPLOIDY; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFERTILITY, MALE; KLINEFELTER SYNDROME; MALE; PREGNANCY; PREIMPLANTATION DIAGNOSIS; RISK; SEX CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC; SPERMATOGENESIS; TRANSLOCATION, GENETIC; X CHROMOSOME; XYY KARYOTYPE;

EID: 33845313303     PISSN: 1008682X     EISSN: 17457262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-7262.2006.00231.x     Document Type: Review

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