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Elucidating the molecular characteristics of organogenesis in human embryos

Xin Geng and Guillermo Oliver*

Author Affiliations

Department of Genetics and Tumor Cell Biology, St Jude Children's Research Hospital, 262 Danny Thomas Place, Memphis, TN 38105-3678, USA

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Genome Biology 2010, 11:130 doi:10.1186/gb-2010-11-8-130

Published: 27 August 2010

Abstract

A transcriptomic analysis of early human organogenesis reveals the molecular signature of these processes and provides a valuable resource for identifying and comparing crucial regulators of mammalian embryogenesis.