No mitochondrial DNA deletions but more D-loop point mutations in repeated pregnancy loss

Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics

Volumn 27, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 641-648

  Seyedhassani, Seyed Mohammad ^a,b   Houshmand, Massoud ^a   Kalantar, Seyed Mehdi ^b   Modabber, Glayol ^a   Aflatoonian, Abbas ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENETIC ENGINEERING AND BIOTECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b SHAHID SADOUGHI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Deletion; Mitochondrial DNA; Mutation; Repeated pregnancy loss

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; NUCLEOTIDE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE INSERTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; INFERTILITY THERAPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL BLOOD; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPEATED PREGNANCY LOSS; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION;

ABORTION, HABITUAL; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; POINT MUTATION; PREGNANCY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 78651278396     PISSN: 10580468     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10815-010-9435-2     Document Type: Article

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