Telomere length in human blastocysts

Reproductive BioMedicine Online

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 624-637

  Mania, Anastasia ^a,b   Mantzouratou, Anna ^a,b   Delhanty, Joy D A ^a   Baio, Gianluca ^a   Serhal, Paul ^b   Sengupta, Sioban B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

aneuploidy; blastocyst; human; preimplantation embryo; quantitative FISH; telomere length

Indexed keywords

ANEUPLOIDY; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CELL DIVISION; CHROMOSOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MATERNAL AGE; PATERNAL AGE; PLOIDY; PREIMPLANTATION EMBRYO; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; TELOMERE; ADULT; CELL CULTURE; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CYTOLOGY; EMBRYO CULTURE; EMBRYOLOGY; GENETICS; LYMPHOCYTE; MALE; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ADULT; ANEUPLOIDY; BLASTOCYST; CELLS, CULTURED; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; EMBRYO CULTURE TECHNIQUES; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; LYMPHOCYTES; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TELOMERE;

EID: 84899742606     PISSN: 14726483     EISSN: 14726491     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rbmo.2013.12.010     Document Type: Article

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