Feinberg School of Medicine - Center for Genetic Medicine 
 
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Publications
  1. Lee, T., C. Shah and E. Y. Xu  Gene trap mutagenesis: A functional genomics approach towards reproductive research  Mol Hum Reprod  (In Press)
  2. Xu, E. Y., R. Chang, Nicholas A. Salmon and R. A. Reijo Pera (2007) A genetrap mutation of a murine homolog of the Drosophila stem cell factor Pumilio results in smaller testes but does not affect litter size or fertility Molecular Reproduction and Development. Jan 11
  3. Salmon, N. A., Renee Reijo Pera and E. Y. Xu (2006) A gene trap knockout of the abundant sperm tail protein, Outer Dense Fiber 2(ODF2), results in preimplantation lethality   Genesis Oct31 44(11):515-2
  4. Joyce Y. Tung, C. Marc Luetjens, Joachim Wistuba, E. Y. Xu, Renee A. Reijo Pera, Jörg Gromoll  (2006) Evolutionary comparison of the reproductive genes, DAZL and BOULE, in primates with and without DAZ  Genes, Development and Evolution   Jan 20, 1-11
  5. Y.-M. Kuo, J. Duncan, S. Westaway,H. Yang, G. Nune, E. Y. Xu, S. Hayflick, and J. Gitschier (2004)  Deficiency in pantothenate kinase 2 in a mouse model for Hallervorden-Spatz Syndrome leads to retinal degeneration and azoospermia  Human Molecular Genetics 14(1):49-57
  6. Xu, E. Y., D. Lee, A. Klebes, P. J. Turek, T. Kornberg and  R. Reijo Pera  Human BOULE rescues the meiotic defects in  infertile flies (2003)  Human Molecular Genetics  Vol 12(2) P169-175.
  7. C. Marc Luetjens, E. Y. Xu, Renee A. Reijo Pera, Axel Kamischke, Eberhard Nieschlag, Jörg Gromoll (2004)  Association of meiotic arrest in infertile men and lack of BOULE protein expression.   J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 89(4):1926-33
  8. Xu, E. Y., F. Moore, R. Reijo Pera,  A gene family required for human germ cell development evolved from an ancient meiotic gene conserved in all metazoans.  PNAS (2001) Vol 98, 7414-7419.
  9. Wu, C.-I. And E. Y. Xu  The evolution of X-inactivation­the germline first hypothesis. (2003)  Trends in Genetics  19(5): 243-7.
  10. Li, K., E. Y.Xu, J.Cecil, R.R. Turner, T. L. Megraw and T.C. Kaufman  Drosophila centrosomin protein is required for male meiosis and assembly of the flagellar axoneme.   J. Cell Biology  Vol 141(2) 455-467, 1998.
  11. Wu, C.-I., H. Hollocher, D.J. Begun, C. F. Aquadro, Y. Xu and Mao-Lien Wu.  Sexual isolation in Drosophila melanogaster: A possible case of incipient speciation.  PNAS  92: 2519-2523, 1995.

 

 

 

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