A fresh look at the male-specific region of the human y chromosome

Journal of Proteome Research

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 6-22

  Jangravi, Zohreh ^a   Alikhani, Mehdi ^a   Arefnezhad, Babak ^a   Tabar, Mehdi Sharifi ^a   Taleahmad, Sara ^a   Karamzadeh, Razieh ^a,d   Jadaliha, Mahdieh ^a   Mousavi, Seyed Ahmad ^a   Rastegar, Diba Ahmadi ^a   Parsamatin, Pouria ^a   Vakilian, Haghighat ^a   Mirshahvaladi, Shahab ^a   Sabbaghian, Marjan ^a   Meybodi, Anahita Mohseni ^a   Mirzaei, Mehdi ^b   Shahhoseini, Maryam ^a   Ebrahimi, Marzieh ^a   Piryaei, Abbas ^c   Moosavi Movahedi, Ali Akbar ^d   Haynes, Paul A ^e   Goodchild, Ann K ^a   Nasr Esfahani, Mohammad Hossein ^f   Jabbari, Esmaiel ^a   Baharvand, Hossein ^g   Sedighi Gilani, Mohammad Ali ^a   Gourabi, Hamid ^a   Salekdeh, Ghasem Hosseini ^a,h   more..

^a ROYAN INSTITUTE FOR REPRODUCTIVE BIOMEDICINE   (Iran)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^e MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^f The Department of Mechanical Engineering   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND CULTURE   (Iran)

^h AGRICULTURAL BIOTECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF IRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Human Y chromosome; Human Y chromosome Proteome Project; Male specific region

Indexed keywords

HEAT SHOCK TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 1; NUCLEAR RECEPTOR NR6A1; PROTEOME; RNA BINDING PROTEIN;

APOPTOSIS; AZOOSPERMIA; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN; CELL ADHESION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHROMOSOME SIZE; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; DNA BINDING; GERM CELL TUMOR; GONAD DEVELOPMENT; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; MALE INFERTILITY; METAL BINDING; OPEN READING FRAME; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POINT MUTATION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW; RNA BINDING; RNA METABOLISM; RNA SEQUENCE; SEX DETERMINATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPERMATOGENESIS; Y CHROMOSOME;

CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC DISEASES, Y-LINKED; HUMAN GENOME PROJECT; HUMANS; MALE; PROTEIN INTERACTION MAPS; PROTEOME; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 84874102705     PISSN: 15353893     EISSN: 15353907     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/pr300864k     Document Type: Review

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