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Diana J Laird1

  • 1Department of Ob/Gyn, Center for Reproductive Sciences, Eli and Edythe Broad Center for Regeneration Medicine and Stem Cell Science, UCSF, 35 Medical Center Way, San Francisco, California 94143, USA. lairdd@obgyn.ucsf.edu

Nature Cell Biology
|December 25, 2012
PubMed
Summary

Human fetal primordial germ cell (PGC) development is complex. Epigenetic reprogramming and sex differentiation occur asynchronously, impacting future in vitro studies.

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