Masculine epigenetic sex marks of the CYP19A1/aromatase promoter in genetically male chicken embryonic gonads are resistant to estrogen-induced phenotypic sex conversion

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 87, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 23-

  Ellis, Haley L ^a   Shioda, Keiko ^a   Rosenthal, Noël F ^a   Coser, Kathryn R ^b   Shioda, Toshi ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Embryo; Endocrine disruptors; Epigenetics; Gene regulation; Sex determination

Indexed keywords

AROMATASE; ESTROGEN; ETHINYLESTRADIOL; HISTONE LYSINE METHYLTRANSFERASE; AVIAN PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 10; DNA METHYLATION; EMBRYO; EPIGENETICS; ESTROGEN SYNTHESIS; FEMALE; FEMINIZATION; GONAD; MALE; MASCULINITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SEX TRANSFORMATION; ANIMAL; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; CHICK EMBRYO; CHICKEN; CPG ISLAND; DRUG EFFECT; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETIC MARKER; GENETICS; METABOLISM; OVARY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; SEX DETERMINATION PROCESS; SEX DIFFERENTIATION DISORDER; TESTIS;

AVES; SPONDIAS PURPUREA;

ANIMALS; AROMATASE; AVIAN PROTEINS; CHICK EMBRYO; CHICKENS; CPG ISLANDS; DISORDERS OF SEX DEVELOPMENT; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; ETHINYL ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; FEMINIZATION; GENETIC MARKERS; MALE; OVARY; PHENOTYPE; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RNA, MESSENGER; SEX DETERMINATION PROCESSES; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; TESTIS;

EID: 84869228439     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.112.099747     Document Type: Article

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