Epigenetics and Human Reproduction

1. Potential Epigenetic Consequences Associated with Assisted Reproduction
Amanda Fortier, Jacquetta Trasler

2. Germ Cell Cancer, Testicular Dysgenesis Syndrome and Epigenetics
Kristian Almstrup, Olga Mlynarska, Ewa Rajpert-De Meyts

3. Medical Implications of Sperm Nuclear Quality
Rafael Oliva, Sara Mateo

4. Gene Expression/Phenotypic Abnormalities in Placental Tissues of Sheep Clones: Insurmountable Block in Cloning Progress?
Pasqualino Loi, Grazyna Ptak

5. Epigenetic Reprogramming Associated with Primordial Germ Cell Development
Yoshiyuki Seki

6. Epigenetic Factors and Regulation of Meiotic Recombination in Mammals
P. Barthès, J. Buard, B. Massy

7. Meiotic Pairing of Homologous Chromosomes and Silencing of Heterologous Regions
Sam Schoenmakers, Willy M. Baarends

8. Histone Variants during Gametogenesis and Early Development
P. Boer, M. Vries, S. Gochhait

9. Genome Organization by Vertebrate Sperm Nuclear Basic Proteins (SNBPs)
Juan Ausió, Laurence R. Brewer, Lindsay Frehlick

10. Epigenetics in Male Reproduction: A Practical Introduction to the Informatics of Next Generation Sequencing
Adrian E. Platts, Claudia Lalancette, Stephen A. Krawetz

11. Organization of Chromosomes During Spermatogenesis and in Mature Sperm
Olga Mudrak, Irina Zalenskaya, Andrei Zalensky

12. Nuclear Lamins in Mammalian Spermatogenesis
Manfred Alsheimer, Daniel Jahn, Sabine Schramm, Ricardo Benavente

13. Specific Transcription Regulatory Mechanisms of Male Germ Cells
Irwin Davidson

14. The Chromatoid Body: A Specialized RNA Granule of Male Germ Cells
Ippei Nagamori, Adam Cruickshank, Paolo Sassone-Corsi

15. Sperm RNA: Reading the Hidden Message
David Miller

Keywords: Biomedicine, Human Genetics, Reproductive Medicine