Single-cell RNA-Seq profiling of human preimplantation embryos and embryonic stem cells

Nature Structural and Molecular Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1131-1139

  Yan, Liying ^a,b   Yang, Mingyu ^a   Guo, Hongshan ^a   Yang, Lu ^a   Wu, Jun ^a   Li, Rong ^a,b   Liu, Ping ^a   Lian, Ying ^a   Zheng, Xiaoying ^a   Yan, Jie ^a   Huang, Jin ^a   Li, Ming ^a   Wu, Xinglong ^a   Wen, Lu ^a   Lao, Kaiqin ^c   Li, Ruiqiang ^a   Qiao, Jie ^a,b   Tang, Fuchou ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^c APPLIED BIOSYSTEMS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; LONG UNTRANSLATED RNA; RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ARTICLE; CELL GROWTH; CELL TYPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DNA MICROARRAY; ECTODERM; EMBRYO; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE NUMBER; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PREIMPLANTATION EMBRYO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SEQUENCE; SINGLE CELL ANALYSIS;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; BLASTOCYST; BLASTOMERES; EMBRYO CULTURE TECHNIQUES; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GERM LAYERS; HUMANS; OOCYTES; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS; RNA, LONG NONCODING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; SINGLE-CELL ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84883743509     PISSN: 15459993     EISSN: 15459985     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nsmb.2660     Document Type: Article

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