Severe oligozoospermia resulting from deletions of azoospermia factor gene on Y chromosome

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Volumn 347, Issue 9011, 1996, Pages 1290-1293

  Reijo, Renee ^a   Alagappan, Raaji K ^a   Patrizio, Pasquale ^b   Page, David C ^a  

^a WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b Fertility Center of San Antonio   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ARTICLE; AZOOSPERMIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE DELETION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LEUKOCYTE; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; OLIGOSPERMIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; Y CHROMOSOME;

EID: 0029871858     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(96)90938-1     Document Type: Article

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