BRCA mutations, DNA repair deficiency, and ovarian aging

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 93, Issue 3, 2015, Pages

  Oktay, Kutluk ^a,b   Turan, Volkan ^a,b   Titus, Shiny ^a,b   Stobezki, Robert ^a,b   Liu, Lin ^c  

^a NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b Innovation Institute for Fertility Preservation and IVF   (United States)

^c NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

BRCA; BRCA1; BRCA2; Fertility; Infertility; Mechanisms of ovarian aging; Mutations; Oocyte; Oocyte DNA repair; Ovarian reserve

Indexed keywords

ATM PROTEIN; BRCA1 PROTEIN; BRCA2 PROTEIN;

AGING; ALLELE; ANEUPLOIDY; CELL ADHESION; DISORDERS OF DNA SYNTHESIS AND REPAIR; DNA REPAIR; FEMALE; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MEIOTIC SPINDLE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; OOCYTE MATURATION; OVARIAN RESERVE; OVARIECTOMY; OVARY CANCER; OVARY DEVELOPMENT; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; SISTER CHROMATID; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TELANGIECTASIA; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; ANIMAL; FERTILITY; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INFERTILITY; META ANALYSIS; MOUSE; OVARY; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE;

ANIMALS; BRCA1 PROTEIN; BRCA2 PROTEIN; DNA REPAIR; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GENES, BRCA2; HUMANS; INFERTILITY; MICE; OVARY;

EID: 84943328313     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.115.132290     Document Type: Review

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