Epigenetics and assisted reproductive technologies: Human imprinting syndromes

Seminars in Reproductive Medicine

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 143-152

  Lawrence, Laura T ^a,b   Moley, Kelle H ^a,b  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Assisted reproductive technologies; Epigenetics; Imprinting

Indexed keywords

CYCLIN DEPENDENT KINASE INHIBITOR 1C; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE; GANIRELIX; GONADORELIN ANTAGONIST; SMALL NUCLEOLAR RNA; SOMATOMEDIN B; SOMATOMEDIN B RECEPTOR;

BECKWITH WIEDEMANN SYNDROME; DIABETES MELLITUS; DNA METHYLATION; EMBRYO TRANSFER; EPIGENETICS; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GAMETE; GENETIC DISORDER; GENOME IMPRINTING; HAPPY PUPPET SYNDROME; HUMAN; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MULTIPLE OVULATION AND EMBRYO TRANSFER; PRADER WILLI SYNDROME; REVIEW; SILVER RUSSELL SYNDROME; SPERMATOZOON; TRANSIENT NEONATAL DIABETES MELLITUS;

ABNORMALITIES, MULTIPLE; ANIMALS; CONGENITAL ABNORMALITIES; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENOMIC IMPRINTING; GERM CELLS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED; SYNDROME;

EID: 40349093037     PISSN: 15268004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2008-1042953     Document Type: Review

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