Mitochondrial DNA variations in ova and blastocyst: Implications in assisted reproduction

Mitochondrion

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 96-105

  Shamsi, Monis Bilal ^a   Govindaraj, Periyasamy ^b   Chawla, Latika ^a   Malhotra, Neena ^a   Singh, Neeta ^a   Mittal, Suneeta ^a   Talwar, Pankaj ^c   Thangaraj, Kumarasamy ^b   Dada, Rima ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^b CENTRE FOR CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (India)

^c Army Research and Referral Hospital   (India)

Author keywords

Blastocyst; Female infertility; In vitro fertilization; Mitochondrial diseases; Oocyte

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOLYSIS; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA SEQUENCE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INFERTILITY THERAPY; MITOCHONDRIAL GENOME; NIDATION; OOCYTE; OOCYTE RETRIEVAL; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ADULT; BLASTOCYST; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS; OVUM; PREGNANCY;

EID: 84875276057     PISSN: 15677249     EISSN: 18728278     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mito.2013.01.002     Document Type: Article

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