The transcriptome and DNA methylome landscapes of human primordial germ cells

Cell

Volumn 161, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1437-1452

  Guo, Fan ^a   Yan, Liying ^a,b   Guo, Hongshan ^a   Li, Lin ^a   Hu, Boqiang ^a   Zhao, Yangyu ^a,b   Yong, Jun ^a   Hu, Yuqiong ^a   Wang, Xiaoye ^a,b   Wei, Yuan ^a,b   Wang, Wei ^a,b   Li, Rong ^a,b   Yan, Jie ^a,b   Zhi, Xu ^a,b   Zhang, Yan ^a,b   Jin, Hongyan ^a   Zhang, Wenxin ^a,b   Hou, Yu ^a   Zhu, Ping ^a   Li, Jingyun ^a   Zhang, Ling ^c   Liu, Sirui ^c   Ren, Yixin ^a,b   Zhu, Xiaohui ^a,b   Wen, Lu ^a,b   Gao, Yi Qin ^c   Tang, Fuchou ^a,b,d   Qiao, Jie ^a,b,e   more..

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^c PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d PEKING UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (China)

^e Beijing Key Laboratory of Reproductive Endocrinology and Assisted Reproduction   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTOME; HISTONE; SOX15 PROTEIN, HUMAN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX;

ARTICLE; CELL MIGRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMETHYLATION; DNA METHYLATION; EMBRYO; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HISTONE MODIFICATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; PRIMORDIAL GERM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; X CHROMOSOME; ANIMAL EMBRYO; CELL MOTION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GERM CELL; METABOLISM; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

CELL MOVEMENT; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, X; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA METHYLATION; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; FEMALE; GERM CELLS; HISTONES; HUMANS; MALE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84930613577     PISSN: 00928674     EISSN: 10974172     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2015.05.015     Document Type: Article

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