Sex determines the expression level of one third of the actively expressed genes in bovine blastocysts

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 3394-3399

  Bermejo Alvarez, P ^a   Rizos, D ^a   Rath, D ^b   Lonergan, P ^c   Gutierrez Adan, A ^a  

^a INIA   (Spain)

^b FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Gender; Imprinting; Microarray; Preimplantation; X inactivation

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUTOSOME; BLASTOCYST; CHROMOSOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; COW; DNA MICROARRAY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; HORMONAL REGULATION; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARTHENOGENESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN METABOLISM; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RECEPTOR UPREGULATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SEX DETERMINATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; X CHROMOSOME LINKAGE;

ANIMALS; BLASTOCYST; CATTLE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENOMIC IMPRINTING; MALE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEX FACTORS; SPLICEOSOMES; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; X CHROMOSOME; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION; Y CHROMOSOME;

BOVINAE;

EID: 77649268853     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0913843107     Document Type: Article

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