High Frequency of Imprinted Methylation Errors in Human Preimplantation Embryos

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  White, Carlee R ^a,b   Denomme, Michelle M ^a,b   Tekpetey, Francis R ^a,c   Feyles, Valter ^a,c   Power, Stephen G A ^a,c   Mann, Mellissa R W ^a,b,d  

^a WESTERN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b CHILDREN S HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^c LONDON HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE   (Canada)

^d Fertility Laboratories of Colorado   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

H19 LONG NON-CODING RNA; KCNQ1OT1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; LONG UNTRANSLATED RNA; SMALL NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; SNRPN PROTEIN, HUMAN; VOLTAGE GATED POTASSIUM CHANNEL;

ADULT; ADVERSE EFFECTS; BLASTOCYST; DNA METHYLATION; FEMALE; GENETICS; GENOME IMPRINTING; HUMAN; IN VITRO FERTILIZATION; MALE; METABOLISM;

ADULT; BLASTOCYST; DNA METHYLATION; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GENOMIC IMPRINTING; HUMANS; MALE; POTASSIUM CHANNELS, VOLTAGE-GATED; RNA, LONG NONCODING; SNRNP CORE PROTEINS;

EID: 84948799383     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep17311     Document Type: Article

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