Kawahara T

No ORCID on file · 2 papers in corpus · active 2015-2025
2025
Scientific reports ·doi:10.1038/s41598-025-27867-0

Assisted hatching (AH) is a reproductive technique that artificially thins or breaches the zona pellucida to facilitate hatching. Despite its widespread use, there is insufficient evidence to conclude that AH improves pregnancy outcomes, pa…

2015
PloS one ·doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0131283

Conception rates among dairy cows in Japan have declined in recent decades. To enhance our understanding of the genes involved in conception rates, we conducted a genome-wide association study (GWAS) using 822 Holsteins and identified a sin…