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Mitogenomes of polar bodies and corresponding oocytes.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2014
Gianaroli Luca, Gianoarli Luca, Luiselli Donata, Crivello Anna Maria, Lang Martin, Ferraretti Anna Pia, De Fanti Sara, Magli M Cristina, Romeo Giovanni
Abstract excerpt
The objective of the present study was to develop an approach that could assess the chromosomal status and the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) content of oocytes and their corresponding polar bodies (PBs) with the goal of obtaining a comparative picture of the segregation process both for nuclear and mtDNA. After Whole Genome Amplification (WGA), sequencing of the whole mitochondrial genome was attempted to analyze the...
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