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ReviewBirth defects research. Part C, Embryo today : reviews2009

Genomic landscape of developing male germ cells.

Tin-Lap Lee, Alan Lap-Yin Pang, Owen M Rennert, Wai-Yee Chan

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Review in Birth defects research. Part C, Embryo today : reviews, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
22citing papers in PubMed
6.3field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

22 citing papers in PubMed, 41 citations in OpenAlex.

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  9. Male-specific region of the bovine Y chromosome is gene rich with a high transcriptomic activity in testis development.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2013
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  14. Identification of novel long noncoding RNA transcripts in male germ cells.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2012
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  19. Testicular postgenomics: targeting the regulation of spermatogenesis.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2010
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Tin-Lap LeeSection on Developmental Genomics, Laboratory of Clinical Genomics, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892-4429, USA.
Alan Lap-Yin Pang
Owen M Rennert
Wai-Yee Chan
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development · USNational Institutes of Health · US

Funding

Transcription regulation and functional studies of germ cell specific genesZIAHD008817 · NICHD · EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH & HUMAN DEVELOPMENT · PI RENNERT, OWEN · 2009 to 2013
$2.4M
Genetic regulation of spermatogenesisZIAHD008726 · NICHD · EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH & HUMAN DEVELOPMENT · PI RENNERT, OWEN · 2009 to 2011
$1.3M
Genetic and epigenomic studies of testicular tumorZIAHD008820 · NICHD · EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH & HUMAN DEVELOPMENT · PI RENNERT, OWEN · 2009 to 2012
$660k
Intramural NIH HHS Z99 HD999999
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Spermatogenesis is a highly orchestrated developmental process by which spermatogonia develop into mature spermatozoa. This process involves many testis- or male germ cell-specific gene products whose expressions are strictly regulated. In the past decade the advent of high-throughput gene expression analytical techniques has made functional genomic studies of this process, particularly in model animals such as mice and rats, feasible and practical. These studies have just begun to reveal the complexity of the genomic landscape of the developing male germ cells. Over 50% of the mouse and rat genome are expressed during testicular development. Among transcripts present in germ cells, 40% - 60% are uncharacterized. A number of genes, and consequently their associated biological pathways, are differentially expressed at different stages of spermatogenesis. Developing male germ cells present a rich repertoire of genetic processes. Tissue-specific as well as spermatogenesis stage-specific alternative splicing of genes exemplifies the complexity of genome expression. In addition to this layer of control, discoveries of abundant presence of antisense transcripts, expressed psuedogenes, non-coding RNAs (ncRNA) including long ncRNAs, microRNAs (miRNAs) and Piwi-interacting RNAs (piRNAs), and retrogenes all point to the presence of multiple layers of expression and functional regulation in male germ cells. It is anticipated that application of systems biology approaches will further our understanding of the regulatory mechanism of spermatogenesis.

Indexed as

Gene Expression Regulation, DevelopmentalAlternative SplicingAnimalsAntisense Elements (Genetics)Gene Expression ProfilingGenome-Wide Association StudyHumansMaleMicroRNAsRNA, Small InterferingSpermatogenesisSpermatozoaAntisense Elements (Genetics)MicroRNAsRNA, Small Interfering

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PMID19306351
PMCPMC2939912
OpenAlexW2016721108

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