Exposure of mouse embryos to ethanol during preimplantation development: Effect on DNA methylation in the H19 imprinting control region

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 81, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 618-627

  Haycock, Philip C ^a   Ramsay, Michéle ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Embryo; Ethanol; Genomic imprinting; Growth retardation; Toxicology

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; CENTRAL DEPRESSANT AGENT; RNA H19; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ALLELE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; ARTICLE; C57BL MOUSE; DNA METHYLATION; DRUG EFFECT; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENETICS; GENOME IMPRINTING; MOUSE; PATHOLOGY; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DEPRESSANTS; DNA METHYLATION; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; ETHANOL; GENOMIC IMPRINTING; LINEAR MODELS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RNA, UNTRANSLATED;

EID: 67650704762     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.108.074682     Document Type: Article

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