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Keith E. Latham is affiliated with Michigan State University in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields including medicine, biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a concentrated focus on reproductive biology and fertility.

Their work often addresses topics such as reproductive biology and fertility, ovarian function and disorders, reproductive physiology in livestock, renal and related cancers, sperm and testicular function, and pluripotent stem cells research.

Prominent publications by Keith E. Latham include:

  • Negative impact of high doses of follicle-stimulating hormone during superovulation on the ovulatory follicle function in small ovarian reserve dairy heifers, 2020, Biology of Reproduction
  • Excessive follicle-stimulating hormone during ovarian stimulation of cattle may induce premature luteinization of most ovulatory-size follicles, 2022, Biology of Reproduction
  • Probing lasting cryoinjuries to oocyte-embryo transcriptome, 2020, PLoS ONE
  • 040 Excessive FSH doses during superovulation of small ovarian reserve heifers induce premature cumulus expansion and diminish oocyte developmental potential, 2023, Animal - science proceedings

Keith E. Latham frequently collaborates with other researchers in their field. Some of their frequent coauthors include Kaitlin R Karl, Zaramasina L Clark, James J. Ireland, Fermin Jimenez-Krassel, and Emily Gibbings.

Their research is published primarily in venues such as:

  • Biology of Reproduction
  • PLoS ONE
  • Animal - science proceedings

Their main areas of study involve medicine with a strong inclination towards public health, environmental and occupational health, reproductive medicine, molecular biology, and agronomy and crop science. This interdisciplinary approach supports a comprehensive perspective on reproductive physiology and associated biological systems.

Best Publications

  • Genomic imprinting disrupted by a maternal effect mutation in the Dnmt1 gene

    Carina Y. Howell;Timothy H. Bestor;Feng Ding;Keith E. Latham

  • Defects in regulation of apoptosis in caspase-2-deficient mice

    Louise Bergeron;Gloria I. Perez;Glen Macdonald;Lianfa Shi

  • Disruption of Imprinted Gene Methylation and Expression in Cloned Preimplantation Stage Mouse Embryos

    Mellissa R.W. Mann;Young Gie Chung;Leisha D. Nolen;Raluca I. Verona

  • Expression and regulation of genes associated with cell death during murine preimplantation embryo development

    Andrea Jurisicova;Keith E. Latham;Robert F. Casper;Susannah L. Varmuza

  • Myogenic lineage determination and differentiation: Evidence for a regulatory gene pathway

    Deborah F. Pinney;Sonia H. Pearson-White;Stephen F. Konieczny;Keith E. Latham

  • Embryonic genome activation.

    K E Latham;R M Schultz

  • MECHANISMS AND CONTROL OF EMBRYONIC GENOME ACTIVATION IN MAMMALIAN EMBRYOS

    Keith E. Latham

  • Abnormal Regulation of DNA Methyltransferase Expression in Cloned Mouse Embryos

    Young Gie Chung;Sarayu Ratnam;J. Richard Chaillet;J. Richard Chaillet;Keith E. Latham

  • Somatic Cell-Like Features of Cloned Mouse Embryos Prepared with Cultured Myoblast Nuclei

    Shaorong Gao;Young Gie Chung;Jean W. Williams;Joan Riley

  • Acquisition of a transcriptionally permissive state during the 1-cell stage of mouse embryogenesis.

    Keith E. Latham;Davor Solter;Richard M. Schultz

  • Igf2r and Igf2 gene expression in androgenetic, gynogenetic, and parthenogenetic preimplantation mouse embryos: absence of regulation by genomic imprinting.

    K E Latham;A S Doherty;C D Scott;R M Schultz

  • Maternal depletion of CTCF reveals multiple functions during oocyte and preimplantation embryo development

    Le Ben Wan;Hua Pan;Sridhar Hannenhalli;Yong Cheng

  • Rapid H1 linker histone transitions following fertilization or somatic cell nuclear transfer: evidence for a uniform developmental program in mice

    Shaorong Gao;Young Gie Chung;Missag H Parseghian;Gretchen J King

  • Nuclear-Cytoplasmic “Tug of War” During Cloning: Effects of Somatic Cell Nuclei on Culture Medium Preferences of Preimplantation Cloned Mouse Embryos

    Young Gie Chung;Mellissa R.W. Mann;Marisa S. Bartolomei;Keith E. Latham

  • X chromosome reactivation and regulation in cloned embryos.

    Leisha D. Nolen;Shaorong Gao;Zhiming Han;Mellissa R.W. Mann

  • TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR MTEAD-2 IS SELECTIVELY EXPRESSED AT THE BEGINNING OF ZYGOTIC GENE EXPRESSION IN THE MOUSE

    Kotaro J. Kaneko;Emily B. Cullinan;Keith E. Latham;Melvin L. DePamphilis

  • Species-dependent expression patterns of DNA methyltransferase genes in mammalian oocytes and preimplantation embryos.

    Rita Vassena;R. Dee Schramm;Keith E. Latham

  • Analysis of G protein α subunit mRNA abundance in preimplantation mouse embryos using a rapid, quantitative RT-PCR approach

    Lakshmi Rambhatla;Bela Patel;N. Dhanasekaran;Keith E. Latham

  • Ooplasmic donation in humans The potential for epigenic modifications

    Susan M. Hawes;Carmen Sapienza;Keith E. Latham

  • Genomes & Developmental Control X chromosome reactivation and regulation in cloned embryos

    Leisha D. Nolen;Shaorong Gao;Zhiming Han;Young Gie Chung

Frequent Co-Authors

Shaorong Gao
Shaorong Gao Tongji University
Marisa S. Bartolomei
Marisa S. Bartolomei University of Pennsylvania
Peter Sutovsky
Peter Sutovsky University of Missouri
Ryuzo Yanagimachi
Ryuzo Yanagimachi University of Hawaii at Manoa
Richard M. Schultz
Richard M. Schultz University of Pennsylvania
James J. Ireland
James J. Ireland Michigan State University
Kelle H. Moley
Kelle H. Moley Washington University in St. Louis
John J. Eppig
John J. Eppig Jackson Laboratory
Eli Y. Adashi
Eli Y. Adashi Brown University
Arie P. Otte
Arie P. Otte University of Amsterdam

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