Imprinting methylation errors in ART

Reproductive Medicine and Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 193-202

  Hiura, Hitoshi ^a   Okae, Hiroaki ^a   Chiba, Hatsune ^a   Miyauchi, Naoko ^a   Sato, Fumi ^a   Sato, Akiko ^a   Arima, Takahiro ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Assisted reproductive technologies (ART); DNA methylation; Genomic imprinting; In vitro fertilization (IVF); Intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI)

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DNA METHYLATION; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO TRANSFER; EPIGENETICS; FERTILIZATION; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GAMETE; GAMETOGENESIS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC DISORDER; GENOME IMPRINTING; HUMAN; IMPRINTING METHYLATION ERROR; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; OVULATION INDUCTION; PATHOGENESIS; PRADER WILLI SYNDROME; SILVER RUSSELL SYNDROME; SPERMATOGENESIS;

EID: 84919834945     PISSN: 14455781     EISSN: 14470578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12522-014-0183-3     Document Type: Article

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