Fine Time Course Expression Analysis Identifies Cascades of Activation and Repression and Maps a Putative Regulator of Mammalian Sex Determination

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Munger, Steven C ^a,b   Natarajan, Anirudh ^c   Looger, Loren L ^d   Ohler, Uwe ^a,c,e   Capel, Blanche ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b JACKSON LABORATORY   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e MAX DELBRÜCK CENTER FOR MOLECULAR MEDICINE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTOME;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COL9A3 GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; FEMALE; FGF9 GENE; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; IN VITRO STUDY; LMO4 GENE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NR5A1 GENE; PREDICTION; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS MAPPING; REGULATOR GENE; REPRODUCTION; SEX DETERMINATION PROCESS; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SF1 GENE; SOX9 GENE;

ADAPTOR PROTEINS, SIGNAL TRANSDUCING; ANIMALS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; GONADS; LIM DOMAIN PROTEINS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; OVARY; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SEX DETERMINATION PROCESSES; TESTIS;

EID: 84880845873     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1003630     Document Type: Article

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