Re: Fertilization without need for sperm??

From: Mark Perloe (mperloe@ivf.com)
Sun Jul 9 12:41:15 2000


At 07/08/2000 01:24 PM, you wrote: >I've heard a little about an egg fusion technique,

This has long been a procedure people have though to perfect, but DNA methylation differs between male and female gametes. That means that male and female gametes are packaged differently. Mitochondrial DNA is transferred by maternal lineage, egg fusion would likely result in mitochondrial DNA aneuploidy (not sure that is the appropriate term for an overabundance of mitochondrial DNA). Mark Perloe

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