Differential methylation status of IGF2-H19 locus does not affect the fertility of crossbred bulls but some of the CTCF binding sites could be potentially important

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 81, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 350-362

  Jena, Subas C ^a   Kumar, Sandeep ^a   Rajput, Sandeep ^a,b   Roy, Bhaskar ^a,c   Verma, Arpana ^a   Kumaresan, Arumugam ^a   Mohanty, Tushar K ^a   De, Sachinandan ^a   Kumar, Rakesh ^a   Datta, Tirtha K ^a  

^a NATIONAL DAIRY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BISULFITE; PRIMER DNA; SOMATOMEDIN B; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR CTCF; CCCTC-BINDING FACTOR; DNA; H19 LONG NON-CODING RNA; LONG UNTRANSLATED RNA; REPRESSOR PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; BINDING SITE; BOS TAURUS; BULL (BOVINE); CATTLE DISEASE; DNA METHYLATION; FERTILITY; GENE LOCUS; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON; ANIMAL; BOVINAE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS BREEDING; CRYOPRESERVATION; FEMALE; GENETICS; HYBRIDIZATION; MALE INFERTILITY; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPERM PRESERVATION; ULTRASTRUCTURE; VETERINARY;

BOS; BOS TAURUS; BOS TAURUS X BOS INDICUS;

ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; CROSSES, GENETIC; CRYOPRESERVATION; DNA; DNA METHYLATION; FEMALE; HYBRIDIZATION, GENETIC; INFERTILITY, MALE; INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR II; MALE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RNA, LONG NONCODING; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SEMEN PRESERVATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 84898421977     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: 10982795     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrd.22303     Document Type: Article

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