Analysing the sperm epigenome: Roles in early embryogenesis and assisted reproduction

Nature Reviews Urology

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 609-619

  Schagdarsurengin, Undraga ^a   Paradowska, Agnieszka ^a   Steger, Klaus ^a  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BISULFITE; HISTONE; MICRORNA; NUCLEIC ACID; PROTAMINE; UNTRANSLATED RNA; CHROMATIN;

CAPILLARY ELECTROPHORESIS; CELL SIZE; CHROMATIN CONDENSATION; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CPG ISLAND; DNA METHYLATION; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EPIGENETICS; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HISTONE MODIFICATION; HUMAN; INFERTILITY THERAPY; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYROSEQUENCING; REVIEW; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM; SPERM; SPERMATOGENESIS; CHROMATIN; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; SPERMATOZOON;

CHROMATIN; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; HUMANS; MALE; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 84869083274     PISSN: 17594812     EISSN: 17594820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrurol.2012.183     Document Type: Review

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