A role for Lin28 in primordial germ-cell development and germ-cell malignancy

Nature

Volumn 460, Issue 7257, 2009, Pages 909-913

  West, Jason A ^a,b   Viswanathan, Srinivas R ^a,b   Yabuuchi, Akiko ^a,b   Cunniff, Kerianne ^a,b   Takeuchi, Ayumu ^a,b   Park, In Hyun ^a,b   Sero, Julia E ^a   Zhu, Hao ^a,b   Perez Atayde, Antonio ^a   Frazier, A Lindsay ^a,c   Surani, M Azim ^d   Daley, George Q ^a,b,e,f  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^e Manton Center for Orphan Disease Research   (United States)

^f HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

B LYMPHOCYTE INDUCED MATURATION PROTEIN 1; MICRORNA;

BIOCHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; GAMETE; GENETIC MARKER; HOMINID; RNA; RODENT; TUMOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; CELL MATURATION; CELL SPECIFICITY; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; FEMALE; GAMETE; GENE; GERM CELL TUMOR; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; LIN28 GENE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIMORDIAL GERM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA PROCESSING;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINE; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; GERM CELLS; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NEOPLASMS, GERM CELL AND EMBRYONAL; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSGENES;

EID: 68949131095     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature08210     Document Type: Article

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