Prevention of mitochondrial disease inheritance by assisted reproductive technologies: Prospects and challenges

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - General Subjects

Volumn 1820, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 637-642

  Yabuuchi, Akiko ^a   Beyhan, Zeki ^b   Kagawa, Noriko ^a   Mori, Chiemi ^a   Ezoe, Kenji ^a   Kato, Keiichi ^a   Aono, Fumihito ^a   Takehara, Yuji ^a   Kato, Osamu ^a  

^a Advanced Medical Research Institute of Fertility   (Japan)

^b Sher Institute for Reproductive Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Assisted reproductive technology; Germinal vesicle transfer; Mitochondrial disease; Mitochondrial DNA heteroplasmy

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANEUPLOIDY; CELL DIVISION; CELL NUCLEUS TRANSPLANTATION; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DISORDERS OF MITOCHONDRIAL FUNCTIONS; DNA TRANSFER; FEMALE INFERTILITY; GENETIC RISK; GERMINAL VESICLE TRANSFER; HETEROPLASMY; HUMAN; IN VITRO OOCYTE MATURATION; INFERTILITY THERAPY; MEIOSIS; MELAS SYNDROME; METAPHASE CHROMOSOME TRANSFER; MITOSIS SPINDLE; MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE MATURATION; OOPLASMIC TRANSFER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRONUCLEAR TRANSFER; REVIEW; RISK REDUCTION; THERAPY EFFECT;

CELL NUCLEUS; CYTOPLASM; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENES, MITOCHONDRIAL; HUMANS; MITOCHONDRIAL DISEASES; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED;

EID: 84859421246     PISSN: 03044165     EISSN: 18728006     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbagen.2011.10.014     Document Type: Review

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