The sperm epigenome: Implications for the embryo

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 791, Issue , 2014, Pages 53-66

  Gannon, John R ^a   Emery, Benjamin R ^a   Jenkins, Timothy G ^a   Carrell, Douglas T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

DNA methylation; Embryogenesis; Epigenetics; Histone; Protamine

Indexed keywords

DNA; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE; HISTONE; HISTONE H3; HISTONE H4; MESSENGER RNA; PROTAMINE;

ARTICLE; CHROMATIN; DNA METHYLATION; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EPIGENETICS; FERTILIZATION; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC LINKAGE; HISTONE MODIFICATION; HUMAN; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FEMALE; GENOME; HISTONES; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; PREGNANCY; PROTAMINES; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 84934439114     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-7783-9_4     Document Type: Article

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