Attempt to rescue sex-reversal by transgenic expression of the PISRT1 gene in XX PIS-/- goats

Sexual Development

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 142-151

  Boulanger, L ^a   Kocer, A ^a   Daniel, N ^a   Pannetier, M ^a   Chesne P ^a   Heyman, Y ^a   Renault, L ^a   Mandon Pepin B ^a   Chavatte Palmer, P ^a   Vignon, X ^a   Vilotte, J L ^b   Cotinot, C ^a   Renard, J P ^a   Pailhoux, E ^a  

^a INRA Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique   (France)

^b Laboratoire de Genetique Biochimique et de Cytogenetique   (France)

Author keywords

Goat cloning; Nuclear transfer; PIS locus; Sex determination; XX sex reversal

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS TRANSPLANTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GENOTYPE; GOAT; GONAD; KARYOTYPE 46,XX; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DETERMINATION;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; CLONING, ORGANISM; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GENE THERAPY; GOATS; MALE; PHENOTYPE; SEX DETERMINATION (GENETICS); SEX REVERSAL, GONADAL; TRANSGENES; X CHROMOSOME;

CAPRA HIRCUS; MAMMALIA; MUS;

EID: 51349138774     PISSN: 16615425     EISSN: 16615433     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000143432     Document Type: Article

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