ArticleScience translational medicine2016
Comment on "Absence of sperm RNA elements correlates with idiopathic male infertility".
Article in Science translational medicine, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.
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5 citing papers in PubMed, 9 citations in OpenAlex.
- Identifying potential genetic biomarkers for sperm dysfunction through whole-genome sequencing.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Single Sperm RNA signatures reveal MicroRNA biomarkers for male subfertility.Journal of assisted reproduction and genetics · 2024Article
- Small RNA shuffling between murine sperm and their cytoplasmic droplets during epididymal maturation.Developmental cell · 2023Article
- Single-molecule long-read sequencing reveals a conserved intact long RNA profile in sperm.Nature communications · 2021Article
- From preformation to reformulation-the then and now of sperm selection.Journal of assisted reproduction and genetics · 2017Article
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Abstract
The spermatozoal population used for a recent RNA sequencing study may have been contaminated by somatic cell types because of an inefficient sperm purification procedure.
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