Implications of epigenetics and genomic imprinting in assisted reproductive technologies

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 76, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1006-1018

  Laprise, Shari L ^a  

^a BABSON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BECKWITH WIEDEMANN SYNDROME; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EPIGENETICS; FERTILIZATION; GAMETE; GAMETOGENESIS; GENETIC DISORDER; GENOME IMPRINTING; HAPPY PUPPET SYNDROME; HUMAN; INFERTILITY; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SILVER RUSSELL SYNDROME; SPERM; SUPEROVULATION;

EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FEMALE; GENETIC DISEASES, INBORN; GENOMIC IMPRINTING; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED;

EID: 70349271389     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: 10982795     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrd.21058     Document Type: Review

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