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Chromosome X modulates incidence of testicular germ cell tumors in Ter mice.
Mammalian genome : official journal of the International Mammalian Genome Society - 1 Dec 2007
Hammond Shirley, Zhu Rui, Youngren Kirsten K, Lam Josephine, Anderson Philip, Matin Angabin
Abstract excerpt
Germ cell tumor development in humans has been proposed to be part of testicular dysgenesis syndrome (TDS), which manifests as undescended testes, sterility, hypospadias, and, in extreme cases, as germ cell tumors. Males of the Ter mouse strain show interesting parallels to TDS because they either lack germ cells and are sterile or develop testicular germ cell tumors. We found that these defects in Ter mice are...
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