germ cell
Noun
Meaning
a spermatozoon or an ovum; a cell responsible for transmitting DNA to the next generation
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Depending on the type and location of your child's extracranial germ cell tumor, various symptoms may occur.
Is there a cure for childhood extracranial germ cell tumors?
In particular, if there is a mutation in a DNA repair gene within a germ cell, humans carrying such germline mutations may have an increased risk of cancer.
Such de novo mutations are the result of a germ cell mutation or germ cell mosaicism in the gonads of one of the parents, or a mutation in the fertilized egg itself.
This process of erasure and reprogramming citation is necessary such that the germ cell imprinting status is relevant to the sex of the individual.
Most of the information presented here concerns germ cell tumors.