'-omics' technology and human reproduction: Reproductomics

Expert Review of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 493-506

  Bellver, José ^a   Mundi, María ^b,c   Esteban, Francisco J ^d   Mosquera, Sandra ^c   Horcajadas, José A ^c,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^b IVI Zaragoza   (Spain)

^c HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO MIGUEL SERVET   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF JAÉN   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSIDAD PABLO DE OLAVIDE   (Spain)

Author keywords

omics'; CGH; genomics; metabolomics; microarray; proteomics; reproductive medicine; transcriptomics

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; MESSENGER RNA;

ACCURACY; BIOINFORMATICS; CELL STRUCTURE; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; CULTURE MEDIUM; CUMULUS CELL; CYTOLOGY; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; EMBRYO TRANSFER; EMBRYONIC STRUCTURES; ENDOMETRIUM; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS; GAMETE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC SCREENING; GENOMICS; GRANULOSA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; HUMAN GENOME PROJECT; INFERTILITY THERAPY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; METABOLOMICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MORPHOLOGY; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; NIDATION; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; OOCYTE; OVULATION INDUCTION; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREIMPLANTATION EMBRYO; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PROTEOMICS; REPRODUCTION; REPRODUCTOMICS; REVIEW; RISK REDUCTION; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERMATOZOON; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; TROPHOBLAST;

EID: 84867536188     PISSN: 17474108     EISSN: 17474116     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/eog.12.48     Document Type: Review

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