Placentas from pregnancies conceived by IVF/ICSI have a reduced DNA methylation level at the H19 and MEST differentially methylated regions

Human Reproduction

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1117-1126

  Nelissen, Ewka C M ^a   Dumoulin, John C M ^a   Daunay, Antoine ^b   Evers, Johannes L H ^a   Tost, Jörg ^b,c   Van Montfoort, Aafke P A ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b FONDATION JEAN DAUSSET CEPH   (France)

^c CENTRE NATIONAL DE GÉNOTYPAGE   (France)

Author keywords

DNA methylation; human; imprinting; IVF ICSI; placenta

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA; MESODERM SPECIFIC TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; RNA H19; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT DISEASE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; BIRTH WEIGHT; CPG ISLAND; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENETICS; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PREIMPLANTATION EMBRYO; PROMOTER REGION; PYROSEQUENCING;

EID: 84875595368     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: 14602350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/des459     Document Type: Article

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