Extended fertility and longevity: The genetic and epigenetic link

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 103, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1117-1124

  Wainer Katsir, Kerem ^a   Zou, James Y ^b   Linial, Michal ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

DNA array; genome wide association study; mitochondrial genome; telomeres; Transcriptomics

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL AGING; EPIGENETICS; FEMALE; FEMALE FERTILITY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; LIFESPAN; LONGEVITY; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); MITOCHONDRIAL GENOME; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TELOMERE; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; ADULT; EVOLUTION; FERTILITY; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENOTYPE; MATERNAL AGE; MENOPAUSE; MIDDLE AGED; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY;

GENETIC MARKER; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ADULT; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GENETIC MARKERS; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; LONGEVITY; MATERNAL AGE; MENOPAUSE; MIDDLE AGED; OOCYTES; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PREGNANCY; TELOMERE;

EID: 84929507194     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: 15565653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2015.02.008     Document Type: Review

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