Mutations in TUBB8 cause a multiplicity of phenotypes in human oocytes and early embryos

Journal of Medical Genetics

Volumn 53, Issue 10, 2016, Pages 662-671

  Feng, Ruizhi ^a,b   Yan, Zheng ^c   Li, Bin ^c   Yu, Min ^b   Sang, Qing ^a,b   Tian, Guoling ^d   Xu, Yao ^a,b   Chen, Biaobang ^a,b   Qu, Ronggui ^a,b   Sun, Zhaogui ^e   Sun, Xiaoxi ^b   Jin, Li ^a   He, Lin ^b,c   Kuang, Yanping ^c,f   Cowan, Nicholas J ^d   Wang, Lei ^a,b  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF PLANNED PARENTHOOD RESEARCH   (China)

^f Shanghai Key Laboratory of Reproductive Medicine   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA TUBULIN; BETA TUBULIN 8; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; TUBB8 PROTEIN, HUMAN; TUBULIN;

ADULT; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO FERTILIZATION; IN VITRO STUDY; INHERITANCE; MEIOTIC SPINDLE; MICROTUBULE; MISSENSE MUTATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; OOCYTE MATURATION; PHENOTYPE; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; POLAR BODY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ANIMAL; FEMALE INFERTILITY; GENETICS; MAMMALIAN EMBRYO; METABOLISM; MUTATION; SPINDLE APPARATUS;

ANIMALS; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; MICE; MUTATION; OOCYTES; PHENOTYPE; SPINDLE APPARATUS; TUBULIN;

EID: 84973281943     PISSN: 00222593     EISSN: 14686244     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jmedgenet-2016-103891     Document Type: Article

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