Expression profiling of purified mouse gonadal somatic cells during the critical time window of sex determination reveals novel candidate genes for human sexual dysgenesis syndromes

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 417-431

  Beverdam, Annemiek ^a   Koopman, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL NUCLEUS RECEPTOR; CELL PROTEIN; ENHANCED GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 9; SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX9;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELL ISOLATION; CHROMOSOME MAP; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; EMBRYO; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; GONADAL DYSGENESIS; GRANULOSA CELL; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORTHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REPORTER GENE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SERTOLI CELL; SEX DETERMINATION; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; SOMATIC CELL; SRY GENE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CHROMOSOMES, MAMMALIAN; DOWN-REGULATION; EMBRYO; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GONADAL DYSGENESIS; GONADS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; RECEPTORS, CYTOPLASMIC AND NUCLEAR; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SEX DETERMINATION (GENETICS); TIME FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; UP-REGULATION;

ANIMALIA; ERINACEIDAE; MAMMALIA; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 31544470351     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: 14602083     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddi463     Document Type: Article

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