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Yu-bing Liu1 , Ju Chen2 and Ri-Cheng Chian1 \*

1 Center for Reproductive Medicine, Shanghai Tenth People's Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

2 The First Clinical College, Medical College of Soochow University, Suzhou, China

\*Address all correspondence to: rcchian@tongji.edu.cn

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*Beyond Survival Effects of Vitrification-Warming on Epigenetic Modification and Maternal… DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.107073*

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