ArticleDevelopment (Cambridge, England)2018
Comparative analysis of mouse and human placentae across gestation reveals species-specific regulators of placental development.
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- Current approaches and developments in transcript profiling of the human placenta.Human reproduction update · 2020Pooled it
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- Neuroplacentology of stress: Novel frontiers linking maternal mental health to offspring neurodevelopment.Neurobiology of stress · 2026Review
- VGLL1 contributes to both the transcriptome and epigenome of the developing trophoblast compartment.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- A head start: The relationship of placental factors to craniofacial and brain development.Developmental dynamics : an official publication of the American Association of Anatomists · 2025Review
- Therapeutic nanoparticle safety in pregnancy: Bridging knowledge gaps with environmental insights and a translational roadmap.Journal of controlled release : official journal of the Controlled Release Society · 2025Review
- Advancing comparative placentation through spatial transcriptomics and organoid models.PLoS biology · 2025Article
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Abstract
An increasing body of evidence points to significant spatio-temporal differences in early placental development between mouse and human, but a detailed comparison of placentae in these two species is missing. We set out to compare placentae from both species across gestation, with a focus on trophoblast progenitor markers. We found that CDX2 and ELF5, but not EOMES, are expressed in early post-implantation trophoblast subpopulations in both species. Genome-wide expression profiling of mouse and human placentae revealed clusters of genes with distinct co-expression patterns across gestation. Overall, there was a closer fit between patterns observed in the placentae when the inter-species comparison was restricted to human placentae through gestational week 16 (thus, excluding full-term samples), suggesting that the developmental timeline in mouse runs parallel to the first half of human placental development. In addition, we identified VGLL1 as a human-specific marker of proliferative cytotrophoblast, where it is co-expressed with the transcription factor TEAD4. As TEAD4 is involved in trophectoderm specification in the mouse, we posit a regulatory role for VGLL1 in early events during human placental development.
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