Sexual differentiation in the developing mouse brain: Contributions of sex chromosome genes

Genes, Brain and Behavior

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 166-180

  Wolstenholme, J T ^a   Rissman, E F ^a   Bekiranov, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aneuploidy; Klinefelter syndrome; Sex chromosome; Sex differences; Turner syndrome; X chromosome; X inactivation; Y chromosome

Indexed keywords

ANEUPLOIDY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CHROMOSOME BREAKAGE; CHROMOSOME NUMBER; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOTYPE; GONAD DEVELOPMENT; KLINEFELTER SYNDROME; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX CHROMOSOME; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TURNER SYNDROME; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION;

ANEUPLOIDY; ANIMALS; BRAIN; CHROMOSOME BREAKPOINTS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, X-LINKED; GENES, Y-LINKED; GENOTYPE; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; MALE; MICE; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PHENOTYPE; SEX CHROMOSOMES; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSLOCATION, GENETIC;

MUS;

EID: 84874189927     PISSN: 16011848     EISSN: 1601183X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gbb.12010     Document Type: Article

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