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ReviewJournal of genetics2015

Understanding sex determination in the mouse: genetics, epigenetics and the story of mutual antagonisms.

Andy Greenfield

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Review in Journal of genetics, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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10citing papers in PubMed
1.0field-weighted citation impact, top 20% 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

10 citing papers in PubMed, 21 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. How relevant is the mouse model for understanding human sex determination?International journal of biological sciences · 2025
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  9. Sex-Biased Gene Expression and Isoform Profile of Brine ShrimpAnimals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Andy GreenfieldMammalian Genetics Unit, Medical Research Council, Harwell,Oxfordshire OX11 0RD,United Kingdom. a.greenfield@har.mrc.ac.uk.
Medical Research Council · GB

Funding

Medical Research Council MC_U142684167
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Recent years have seen a rapid growth in mouse genetics resources that support research into fundamental mechanisms in organogenesis, including those controlling mammalian sex determinations. Numerous mouse mutants have shed light on molecular pathways of cell fate specification during gonadogenesis and the 'decision' as to whether testis or ovary development is achieved. These studies indicate substantial genetic complexity, characterized by redundancy, feedback loops, mutual antagonism between testis-determining and ovary-determining gene regulatory networks and a degree of plasticity in the fully differentiated state of the adult gonad that was not appreciated until conditional loss-of-function studies were performed. One challenge now is to understand how controlled epigenomic changes effect the now familiar sexually dimorphic transcriptomic profiles of the male and female gonads, firstly during primary sex determination, but also in the adult gonad, thereby regulating cellular behaviour during morphogenesis and maintaining the differentiated state.

Indexed as

AnimalsCell DifferentiationEpigenesis, GeneticHumansMiceOrganogenesisSex Determination ProcessesSex Differentiation

Identifiers

PMID26690512
OpenAlexW1897257684

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