Poor correlation between polar bodies and blastomere mutation load in a patient with m.3243A>G tRNALeu(UUR) point mutation

Mitochondrion

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 477-479

  Vandewoestyne, Mado ^a   Heindryckx, Björn ^b   De Gheselle, Stefanie ^b   Lepez, Trees ^a   Neupane, Jitesh ^b   Gerris, Jan ^b   Van Coster, Rudy ^b   De Sutter, Petra ^b   Deforce, Dieter ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEUCINE TRANSFER RNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

BIOPSY; BLASTOMERE; CELL BIOPSY; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FERTILIZATION; GENE MUTATION; GERMINAL VESICLE; HETEROPLASMY; HUMAN; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; LETTER; MEIOSIS; MUTATION LOAD; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; OOCYTE; POINT MUTATION; POLAR BODY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; ZYGOTE;

BLASTOMERES; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; HUMANS; POINT MUTATION; POLAR BODIES; RNA, TRANSFER, LEU;

EID: 84864372650     PISSN: 15677249     EISSN: 18728278     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mito.2012.04.002     Document Type: Letter

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