Discovery of germ cell–specific transcripts by expressed sequence tag database analysis
Fertility and SterilityPublished 1 September 2001
Aleksandar Rajkovic, Changning Yan, Michal Klysik, Martin M. Matzuk
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Expressed sequence tags (ESTs) from unfertilized egg libraries were utilized to perform in silico subtraction and identify germ cell-specific transcripts to identify transcripts preferentially expressed in germ cells.
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We have shown that utilization of publicly available ESTs from murine EST libraries is a simple and rapid in silico approach to the identification of transcripts preferentially expressed in germ cells.
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