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Autonomous regulation of sex-specific developmental programming in mouse fetal germ cells.
Biology of reproduction - 1 Oct 2007
Iwahashi Kazuhiro, Yoshioka Hirotaka, Low Eleanor W, McCarrey John R, Yanagimachi Ryuzo, Yamazaki Yukiko
Abstract excerpt
In mice, unique events regulating epigenetic programming (e.g., genomic imprinting) and replication state (mitosis versus meiosis) occur during fetal germ cell development. To determine whether these processes are autonomously programmed in fetal germ cells or are dependent upon ongoing instructive interactions with surrounding gonadal somatic cells, we isolated male and female germ cells at 13.5 days postcoitum...
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