Female-specific features of recombinational double-stranded DNA repair in relation to synapsis and telomere dynamics in human oocytes

Chromosoma

Volumn 113, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 22-33

  Roig, I ^a   Liebe, B ^b   Egozcue, J ^a   Cabero, Ll ^c   Garcia, Montserrat ^a   Scherthan, H ^d  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Germany)

^c HOSPITAL MATERNO INFANTIL VALL D HEBRON   (Spain)

^d Bundeswehr Institute for Radiation Biology   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; PROTEIN MLH1; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

ANEUPLOIDY; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA RECOMBINATION; DNA REPAIR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; MALE; MEIOSIS; OOCYTE; PACHYTENE; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPERMATOCYTE; SYNAPTONEMAL COMPLEX; TELOMERE;

CARRIER PROTEINS; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; DNA REPAIR; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; HISTONES; HUMANS; KARYOTYPING; MEIOTIC PROPHASE I; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; OOCYTES; PHOSPHORYLATION; SYNAPTONEMAL COMPLEX; TELOMERE;

EID: 4544384078     PISSN: 00095915     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00412-004-0290-8     Document Type: Article

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