Monoallelic expression of nine imprinted genes in the sheep embryo occurs after the blastocyst stage

Reproduction

Volumn 135, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 29-40

  Thurston, Alexandra ^a   Taylor, Jane ^b,c   Gardner, John ^b,d   Sinclair, Kevin D ^a   Young, Lorraine E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^d Roslin Cells Limited   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CYCLIN DEPENDENT KINASE INHIBITOR 1C; GENE PRODUCT; GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR BOUND PROTEIN 10; PROTEIN DMR2; PROTEIN GNAS; PROTEIN PEG1; PROTEIN PEG3; RNA H19; SOMATOMEDIN B RECEPTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR MASH2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CHORIOALLANTOIS; CONCEPTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA METHYLATION; EMBRYO; FERTILIZATION; FETUS GROWTH; GAMETOGENESIS; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENOME IMPRINTING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ONTOGENY; PARTHENOGENESIS; PLACENTA DEVELOPMENT; PREIMPLANTATION EMBRYO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SHEEP; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TROPHOBLAST;

ALLANTOIN; ALLELES; ANIMALS; BLASTOCYST; CHORION; DNA METHYLATION; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; FEMALE; FETUS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENOMIC IMPRINTING; GRB10 ADAPTOR PROTEIN; MODELS, ANIMAL; PARTHENOGENESIS; PREGNANCY; RECEPTOR, IGF TYPE 2; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SHEEP;

MAMMALIA; OVIS; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 38349113485     PISSN: 14701626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1530/REP-07-0211     Document Type: Article

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