Temporal transcriptional profiling of somatic and germ cells reveals biased lineage priming of sexual fate in the fetal mouse gonad

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Jameson, Samantha A ^a   Natarajan, Anirudh ^a   Cool, Jonah ^a   DeFalco, Tony ^a   Maatouk, Danielle M ^a   Mork, Lindsey ^a   Munger, Steven C ^a   Capel, Blanche ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACTR6 GENE; ARTICLE; CCNA2 GENE; CELL LINEAGE; CELL POPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAPK1 GENE; DOCK4 GENE; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; FETUS; FST GENE; GATA6 GENE; GENDER BIAS; GENE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GERM CELL; GONAD DEVELOPMENT; LEF1 GENE; LEYDIG CELL; MALE; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLD1 GENE; RSPO1 GENE; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SOMATIC CELL; SOX9 GENE; STROMA CELL; WNT4 GENE; ANIMAL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GONAD; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; SEX DETERMINATION PROCESS;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GERM CELLS; GONADS; MALE; MICE; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; SEX DETERMINATION PROCESSES; STROMAL CELLS;

EID: 84859244587     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1002575     Document Type: Article

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