Is age‐related increase of chromosome segregation errors in mammalian oocytes caused by cohesin deterioration?

Abstract Background Mammalian oocytes initiate meiosis in fetal ovary and are arrested at dictyate stage in prophase I for a long period. It is known that incidence of chromosome segregation errors in oocytes increases with advancing age, but the molecular mechanism underlying this phenomenon has no...

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Main Author: Jibak Lee
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2020-01-01
Series:Reproductive Medicine and Biology
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1002/rmb2.12299