Microarray assessment of methylation in individual mouse blastocyst stage embryos shows that in vitro culture may have widespread genomic effects

Human Reproduction

Volumn 26, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 2576-2585

  Wright, Kristen ^a   Brown, Lucia ^a   Brown, Gregory ^b   Casson, Peter ^a   Brown, Stephen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

assisted reproduction technology; chromosome 7; DNA methylation; Embryo; microarray

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CHROMOSOME 7; CONTROLLED STUDY; CPG ISLAND; DNA METHYLATION; EMBRYO; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; INFERTILITY THERAPY; METHYLATION; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PILOT STUDY; PREIMPLANTATION EMBRYO;

EID: 80051945302     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: 14602350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/der201     Document Type: Article

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