Purpose: The goal of this sequencing  is to investigate alterations in gene expression that result from impaired retinoid signaling compared with control, and how the RA signaling controls spermatogonia differentiation;	Methods: THY1+ spermatogonia mRNA profiles of 4-day-old control and germ cell specific impaired retinoid signaling mice were generated by High-throughput sequencing;	Results: Gene ontology (GO) analysis of the genes at the top of the ranked genes indicated enrichment in genes associated with roles in reproduction, transcription and spermatogenesis. In total, we identified 1633 and 742 transcripts (Reads Per Kilobase of transcript per Million mapped reads (RPKM) > 1) that were significantly (p-value < 0.05, > 1.5-fold difference) down- and up-regulated, respectively, in the germ cell mutants compared with the controls. Most importantly, we found that the majority of transcripts of replication-dependent core histone genes, histone cluster 1 (Hist1) were downregulated in germ cell mutants. SOURCE: Yao Chen (chenyao2013@sibcb.ac.cn) - Tong minghan's lab University of Chinese Academy of Sciences

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GSE79863: Next Generation Sequencing Facilitates Quantitative Analysis of germ cell RA signaling mutant and control THY1+ spermatogonia Transcriptomes