Stability, delivery and functions of human sperm RNAs at fertilization

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 41, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 4104-4117

  Sendler, Edward ^a   Johnson, Graham D ^a   Mao, Shihong ^a   Goodrich, Robert J ^a   Diamond, Michael P ^a   Hauser, Russ ^b   Krawetz, Stephen A ^a  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LONG UNTRANSLATED RNA; MESSENGER RNA; MICRORNA; RNA; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EPIGENETICS; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC CODE; GENOME; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STABILITY; SPERM; SPERMATOZOON;

EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FERTILIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MICRORNAS; POLYADENYLATION; RNA; RNA ISOFORMS; RNA PRECURSORS; RNA STABILITY; RNA, SMALL UNTRANSLATED; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; SPERMATOZOA; TESTIS;

EID: 84876548498     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkt132     Document Type: Article

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