Role of Ahch in gonadal development and gametogenesis

Nature Genetics

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 353-357

  Yu, Richard N ^a   Ito, Masafumi ^a   Saunders, Thomas L ^b   Camper, Sally A ^b   Jameson, J Larry ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GAMETOGENESIS; GENE DOSAGE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE TARGETING; GONAD DEVELOPMENT; HYPOGONADOTROPIC HYPOGONADISM; MALE INFERTILITY; MOUSE; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SEX DETERMINATION; SPERMATOGENESIS; STEROIDOGENESIS;

ADRENAL GLANDS; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FEMALE; GONADS; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; OOCYTES; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; SPERMATOZOA; TESTIS; ZINC FINGERS;

EID: 0031796372     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/3822     Document Type: Article

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