Epigenetics in assisted reproductive technology

Reproductive Medicine and Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 69-75

  Katagiri, Yukiko ^a   Shibui, Yukihiro ^a   Nagao, Koichi ^a   Miura, Kazukiyo ^a   Morita, Mineto ^a  

^a TOHO UNIVERSITY OMORI MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Assisted reproductive technology; Assistedreproductive technology children; Beckwith Wiedemann syndrome; Epigenetics; Large offspring syndrome

Indexed keywords

BECKWITH WIEDEMANN SYNDROME; BODY WEIGHT DISORDER; CELL NUCLEUS TRANSPLANTATION; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENETICS; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GAMETE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC DISORDER; GENOME IMPRINTING; HAPPY PUPPET SYNDROME; HUMAN; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTELLECTUAL IMPAIRMENT; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PARTHENOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; REVIEW;

EID: 34249072504     PISSN: 14455781     EISSN: 14470578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1447-0578.2007.00168.x     Document Type: Review

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