Assisted reproductive technologies do not enhance the variability of DNA methylation imprints in human

Journal of Medical Genetics

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 371-376

  Tierling, Sascha ^a   Souren, Nicole Y ^b,c   Gries, Jasmin ^a   Loporto, Christina ^a   Groth, Marco ^d   Lutsik, Pavlo ^a   Neitzel, Heidemarie ^e   Utz Billing, Isabelle ^f   Gillessen Kaesbach, Gabriele ^g   Kentenich, Heribert ^f   Griesinger, Georg ^g   Sperling, Karl ^e   Schwinger, Eberhard ^g   Walter, Jörn ^a  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^d FRITZ LIPMANN INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^e CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^f DRK KLINIKEN BERLIN WESTEND   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMNION; ARTICLE; CHORION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DLK1 GENE; DNA METHYLATION; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GENE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME IMPRINTING; GNAS GENE; GRB10 GENE; H19 GENE; HUMAN; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; KVDMR1 GENE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATERNAL BLOOD; MEST GENE; NESP55 GENE; NEWBORN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SNRPN GENE; TISSUE TYPES; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD;

AMNION; CHORION; DNA; DNA METHYLATION; FEMALE; FETAL BLOOD; GENOME, HUMAN; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; GRB10 ADAPTOR PROTEIN; GTP-BINDING PROTEIN ALPHA SUBUNITS, GS; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MALE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; POTASSIUM CHANNELS, VOLTAGE-GATED; PREGNANCY; PROTEINS; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SNRNP CORE PROTEINS;

EID: 77953697151     PISSN: 00222593     EISSN: 14686244     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jmg.2009.073189     Document Type: Article

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