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Culture of oocytes and risk of imprinting defects
10 Oct 2012
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BACKROUND Follicle culture and oocyte in vitro maturation (IVM) are emerging assisted reproductive technologies with potentially important future applications in the fertility clinic. There is concern that these technologies might interfere at the epigenetic level and, in particular, with genomic imprinting. The timely acquisition of correct imprinting patterns in oocytes and the maintenance of genomic imprinting...
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