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Cisplatin and carboplatin result in similar gonadotoxicity in immature human testis with implications for fertility preservation in childhood cancer
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Large-scale discovery of male reproductive tract-specific genes through analysis of RNA-seq datasets
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DNA methylation and body mass index from birth to adolescence: meta-analyses of epigenome-wide association studies
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The Tug1 lncRNA locus is essential for male fertility
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