Dax1 antagonizes Sry action in mammalian sex determination

Nature

Volumn 391, Issue 6669, 1998, Pages 761-767

  Swain, Amanda ^a   Narvaez, Veronica ^a,b   Burgoyne, Paul ^a   Camerino, Giovanna ^c   Lovell Badge, Robin ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DEL ESTADO DE MORELOS   (Mexico)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL NUCLEUS RECEPTOR; HORMONE RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME XP; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; FEMALE; FETUS; GENE DOSAGE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; KARYOTYPE 46,XY; MALE; MAMMAL; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR GENE; SEX DETERMINATION; SEX TRANSFORMATION; TESTIS DEVELOPMENT; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; Y CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED CBA; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; OVARY; RECEPTORS, RETINOIC ACID; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SEX CHROMOSOMES; SEX DETERMINATION (GENETICS); SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SEX REVERSAL, GONADAL; SEX-DETERMINING REGION Y PROTEIN; TESTIS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 0032546009     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35799     Document Type: Article

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