Genomic landscape of developing male germ cells

Birth Defects Research Part C - Embryo Today: Reviews

Volumn 87, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 43-63

  Lee, Tin Lap ^a   Pang, Alan Lap Yin ^a   Rennert, Owen M ^a   Chan, Wai Yee ^a,b  

^a EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

^b GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Alternative splicing; Anti sense; NcRNA; Retrogene; Transcriptome

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY RNA; GENE PRODUCT; MICRORNA; PIWI INTERACTING RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ANALYTIC METHOD; CELL MATURATION; CELL SPECIFICITY; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GERM CELL; HEREDITY; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOGENE; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOGONIUM; TESTIS DEVELOPMENT; TISSUE SPECIFICITY;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; ANTISENSE ELEMENTS (GENETICS); GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; MALE; MICRORNAS; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOA;

ANIMALIA; MUS; RATTUS;

EID: 63849271832     PISSN: 1542975X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bdrc.20147     Document Type: Review

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