Infertility, assisted reproduction technologies and imprinting disturbances: A Dutch study

Human Reproduction

Volumn 22, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 2476-2480

  Doornbos, Marianne E ^a,d   Maas, Saskia M ^a   McDonnell, Joseph ^b,e   Vermeiden, Jan P W ^b,f   Hennekam, Raoul C M ^a,c  

^a ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^e Menzies Health School Darwin   (Australia)

^f NONE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BECKWITH WIEDEMANN SYNDROME; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FAMILIAL INCIDENCE; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GENETIC DISORDER; GENOME IMPRINTING; HAPPY PUPPET SYNDROME; HUMAN; INFERTILITY; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; INTRAUTERINE INSEMINATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL AGE; NETHERLANDS; OVARY HYPERSTIMULATION; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRADER WILLI SYNDROME; PREGNANCY; QUESTIONNAIRE;

EID: 34548081379     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: 14602350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/dem172     Document Type: Article

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