Cytogenetics of infertile men

Human Reproduction

Volumn 11, Issue SUPPL. 4, 1996, Pages 1-24

  Van Assche, E ^a   Bonduelle, M ^a   Tournaye, H ^b   Joris, H ^b   Verheyen, G ^b   Devroey, P ^a   Van Steirteghem, A ^b   Liebaers, I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BRUSSELS   (Belgium)

^b CENTRE FOR REPRODUCTIVE MEDICINE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Chromosome aberration; Infertility; Meiosis; Spermatogenesis

Indexed keywords

ROBERTSONIA;

ANEUPLOIDY; AUTOSOME; AZOOSPERMIA; CELL STRUCTURE; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CHROMOSOME INVERSION; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOGENETICS; DNA DETERMINATION; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; KARYOTYPE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; MEIOSIS; MITOSIS; OLIGOSPERMIA; PATIENT COUNSELING; RECIPROCAL CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; REPRODUCTION; ROBERTSONIAN CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SEX CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; Y CHROMOSOME;

EID: 0030317035     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/11.suppl_4.1     Document Type: Article

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