Impaired imprinted X chromosome inactivation is responsible for the skewed sex ratio following in vitro fertilization

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 113, Issue 12, 2016, Pages 3197-3202

  Tan, Kun ^a   An, Lei ^a   Miao, Kai ^a   Ren, Likun ^a   Hou, Zhuocheng ^a   Tao, Li ^a   Zhang, Zhenni ^a   Wang, Xiaodong ^a   Xia, Wei ^a   Liu, Jinghao ^b   Wang, Zhuqing ^a   Xi, Guangyin ^a   Gao, Shuai ^a   Sui, Linlin ^a   Zhu, De Sheng ^b   Wang, Shumin ^a   Wu, Zhonghong ^a   Bach, Ingolf ^c   Chen, Dong Bao ^d   Tian, Jianhui ^a  

^a CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

In vitro fertilization; Rnf12; Sex ratio; X chromosome inactivation; Xist

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN; RETINOIC ACID; RING FINGER PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; X INACTIVE SPECIFIC TRANSCRIPT PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; BLASTOMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CULTURE; EPIGENETICS; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMPAIRED IMPRINTED X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION; MALE; MOUSE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PREIMPLANTATION EMBRYO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX RATIO; TROPHOBLAST; UPREGULATION; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION; GENOME IMPRINTING; IN VITRO FERTILIZATION; X CHROMOSOME;

CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, X; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GENOMIC IMPRINTING; HUMANS; SEX RATIO; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION;

EID: 84962237695     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1523538113     Document Type: Article

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