Silver-Russell syndrome in a girl born after in vitro fertilization: Partial hypermethylation at the differentially methylated region of PEG1/MEST

Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 131-136

  Kagami, Masayo ^a   Nagai, Toshiro ^b   Fukami, Maki ^a   Yamazawa, Kazuki ^a   Ogata, Tsutomu ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR CHILD HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT   (Japan)

^b DOKKYO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Hypermethylation; Imprinting; In vitro fertilization; PEG1 MEST; Silver Russell syndrome

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA; MESODERM SPECIFIC TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHROMOSOME 7Q; CPG ISLAND; DNA HYPERMETHYLATION; DNA METHYLATION; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INFERTILITY THERAPY; MICROSATELLITE INSTABILITY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; NUMERICAL CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SILVER RUSSELL SYNDROME;

ABNORMALITIES, MULTIPLE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHILD; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 7; DNA METHYLATION; DNA PRIMERS; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FETAL GROWTH RETARDATION; GROWTH; HUMANS; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PREGNANCY; PROTEINS; TWINS;

EID: 34247395327     PISSN: 10580468     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10815-006-9096-3     Document Type: Article

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