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Of Mice and Men: In Vivo and In Vitro Studies of Primordial Germ Cell Specification.
Seminars in reproductive medicine - 1 Mar 2017
Kumar Deepti Lava, DeFalco Tony
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Specification of mouse primordial germ cells (PGCs), the precursors of sperm and eggs, involves three major molecular events: repression of the somatic program, reacquisition of pluripotency, and reprogramming to a unique epigenetic ground state. Gene knockout studies in mouse models, along with global transcriptome analyses, have revealed the key signaling pathways and transcription factors essential for PGC...
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