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Single-cell whole genome amplification (WGA) is a new technology, which can amplify small amounts of DNA from single cell and obtain the high coverage whole genome DNA template for revealing cell heterogeneity. Single cell WGA methods mainly include primer extension preamplification PCR (PEP-PCR), degenerate oligonucleotide primed PCR (DOP-PCR), multiple displacement amplification (MDA), and multiple annealing and looping-based amplification cycles (MALBAC). In this review, we describe the principles and applications of different single cell genome wide amplification, and we evaluate and compare their amplification efficiency, including the coverage of genome, homogeneity, reproducibility, and detection power of single-nucleotide variants (SNV) and copy number variants (CNV). The results show that MALBAC have the highest amplification homogeneity, the lowest allelic gene knockdown rate, the best reproducibility, and the best detection effect on CNV and SNV. We also describe the applications of MALBAC in human single sperm meiosis, aneuploidy analysis, and human oocyte genome research.

The donor nucleus must experienced the epigenetic modification of the process reprogramming and went back to the initial state after the donor cell was injected into the oocytes. If the reprogramming is not completed, the efficiency of cloning will be reduced. However, reprogramming of nucleus muct was not only embodied in its ability after it was transferred into the oocytes. It was different in the potential if the cell type was not identical. In addition, different treatment to the donor cells resulted in different ability and the level of reprogramming. This paper described different effects of the type, algebra, cycles, age, and species of the donor cells after nuclear transplantation on the reprogramming. An overview of the exposition and analysis through the donor cell cryopreservation, serum starvation, and different reagent treatments were discussed.