Stability, delivery and functions of human sperm RNAs at fertilization
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Stability, delivery and functions of human sperm RNAs at fertilization
Increasing attention has focused on the significance of RNA in sperm, in light of its contribution to the birth and long-term health of a child, role in sperm function and diagnostic potential. As the composition of sperm RNA is in flux, assigning specific roles to individual RNAs presents a significant challenge. For the first time RNA-seq was used to characterize the population of coding and ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Nucleic Acids Research
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1362-4962,0305-1048
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkt132