Aberrant DNA methylation of imprinted loci in sperm from oligospermic patients

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 16, Issue 21, 2007, Pages 2542-2551

  Kobayashi, Hisato ^a   Sato, Akiko ^b   Otsu, Eiko ^b   Hiura, Hitoshi ^a   Tomatsu, Chisako ^a   Utsunomiya, Takafumi ^b   Sasaki, Hiroyuki ^c,d   Yaegashi, Nobuo ^a   Arima, Takahiro ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b St Luke Clinic   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENETICS   (Japan)

^d GRADUATE UNIVERSITY FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BISULFITE; DNA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; DNA METHYLATION; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; GENETIC DISORDER; GENETIC RISK; GENOME IMPRINTING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INFANT; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OLIGOSPERMIA; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERMATOZOON;

ADULT; DNA METHYLATION; GENES; GENOMIC IMPRINTING; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; OLIGOSPERMIA; SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 35448975719     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: 14602083     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddm187     Document Type: Article

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