Schimenti JC

ORCID: 0000-0002-7294-1876 · 2 papers in corpus
lab-animal 2021
Nature communications ·doi:10.1038/s41467-021-25028-1

Embryonic aneuploidy from mis-segregation of chromosomes during meiosis causes pregnancy loss. Proper disjunction of homologous chromosomes requires the mismatch repair (MMR) genes MLH1 and MLH3, essential in mice for fertility. Variants in…

review 2021
Trends in molecular medicine ·doi:10.1016/j.molmed.2020.12.008

Genetic causes are thought to underlie about half of infertility cases, but understanding the genetic bases has been a major challenge. Modern genomics tools allow more sophisticated exploration of genetic causes of infertility through popu…