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Claudia Spits

Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Verified email at vub.ac.be
Cited by 3967

The consequences of recurrent genetic and epigenetic variants in human pluripotent stem cells

…, JS Draper, T Ludwig, FT Merkle, Y Sato, C Spits… - Cell Stem Cell, 2022 - cell.com
… (C) Presentation of yearly number of publications of the top-five most prolific countries. (D)
Geographical distribution of hPSC research. For each country, the total number of articles in …

Recent developments in genetics and medically-assisted reproduction: from research to clinical applications

…, M Morris, G Pennings, K Sermon, C Spits… - Human …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Two leading European professional societies, the European Society of Human Genetics
and the European Society for Human Reproduction and Embryology, have worked together …

Genetic and epigenetic instability in human pluripotent stem cells

HT Nguyen, M Geens, C Spits - Human reproduction update, 2013 - academic.oup.com
BACKGROUND There is an increasing body of evidence that human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs)
are prone to (epi)genetic instability during in vitro culture. This review aims at giving …

Whole-genome multiple displacement amplification from single cells

C Spits, C Le Caignec, M De Rycke, L Van Haute… - Nature protocols, 2006 - nature.com
… The enzyme mix of the GenomiPhi Kit must be stored at −70 C (or −80 C) and all other
components may be stored at −20 C. Thaw components on ice and maintain at 0–4 C during …

Recurrent chromosomal abnormalities in human embryonic stem cells

C Spits, I Mateizel, M Geens, A Mertzanidou… - Nature …, 2008 - nature.com
Spits designed the study, performed part of the aCGH analysis and G-bandings and wrote
the … KS is the supervisor of C. Spits, IM and AM and contributed to the design of the study. The …

Optimization and evaluation of single‐cell whole‐genome multiple displacement amplification

C Spits, C Le Caignec, M De Rycke… - Human …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
The scarcity of genomic DNA can be a limiting factor in some fields of genetic research. One
of the methods developed to overcome this difficulty is whole genome amplification (WGA). …

Single-cell chromosomal imbalances detection by array CGH

C Le Caignec, C Spits, K Sermon… - Nucleic acids …, 2006 - academic.oup.com
… The samples were stored at −80C for at least 30 min and … for local background and only spots
with signal intensities at least 1.2-… A mean of all remaining spots of each chromosome was …

Microarray analysis reveals abnormal chromosomal complements in over 70% of 14 normally developing human embryos

A Mertzanidou, L Wilton, J Cheng, C Spits… - Human …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
STUDY QUESTION What are the aneuploidy rates and incidence of mosaicism in good-quality
human preimplantation embryos. SUMMARY ANSWER High-level mosaicism and …

Gain of 20q11. 21 in human embryonic stem cells improves cell survival by increased expression of Bcl-xL

…, C Heirman, K Breckpot, C Spits - Molecular human …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
C, 30 cycles of 30 s at 94C, 30 s at 58C and 30 s at 72C. Agarose gel electrophoresis was
performed with 1 µl of the molecular weight marker VIII (Roche Diagnostics GmbH, Mannheim…

[PDF][PDF] CpG methylation, a parent-of-origin effect for maternal-biased transmission of congenital myotonic dystrophy

…, S Lanni, A López-Castel, S Franck, C Spits… - The American Journal of …, 2017 - cell.com
… A final extension step of 7 min at 72 C was applied. Primer sequences are … C, 15 cycles of
10 s at 98 C, 30 s at 65 C, and 30 s at 72 C, followed by the final extension step of 5 min at 72 C