Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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10032447 | American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology | 2005 | 5 Pages |
Abstract
The finding that telomere length in human eggs predicts cytoplasmic fragmentation in embryos provides evidence that telomere shortening induces apoptosis in human preimplantation embryos, consistent with a telomere theory of reproductive senescence in women.
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Authors
David L. Keefe, Sonia Franco, Lin Liu, James Trimarchi, Benning Cao, Sherry Weitzen, Shoba Agarwal, Maria A. Blasco,