Meiosis and maternal aging: Insights from aneuploid oocytes and trisomy births

Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2015, Pages

  Herbert, Mary ^a,b   Kalleas, Dimitrios ^b   Cooney, Daniel ^b   Lamb, Mahdi ^b   Lister, Lisa ^b  

^a Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Trust   (United Kingdom)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAMMALIA;

AGING; ANEUPLOIDY; ANIMAL; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; HUMAN; MATERNAL AGE; MEIOSIS; OOCYTE; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; PHYSIOLOGY; TRISOMY;

AGING; ANEUPLOIDY; ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURES; HUMANS; MATERNAL AGE; MEIOSIS; OOCYTES; OOGENESIS; TRISOMY;

EID: 84926430103     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19430264     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/cshperspect.a017970     Document Type: Article

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