Expression profiling of DNA repair genes in human oocytes and blastocysts using microarrays

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BACKGROUND: The early preimplantation embryo relies on mRNA and protein from the oocyte to detect DNA damage and activate DNA repair, cell cycle arrest or apoptosis. Expression of some repair genes has been detected in mammalian oocytes and embryos; however, little is known about DNA repair gene expression in human blastocysts. In this study, DNA repair gene expression was investigated in human oocytes and...

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