Frequency of Y-chromosome microdeletions (Yq11.22-23) In men with reduced sperm quality requesting assisted reproduction

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 424, Issue , 1997, Pages 31-35

  Bonhoff, A ^a   Fischer, R ^a   Baukloh, V ^a   Naether, O G J ^a   Schulze, W ^b   Hoppner W ^c  

^a Endokrinologische P   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^c Institut fur Hormon und Fortpflanzungsforschung IHF   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CHROMOSOME DELETION; GENE DISRUPTION; GENETIC DISORDER; GENETIC RISK; GENOTYPE; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON CAPACITATION; Y CHROMOSOME;

EID: 0030726514     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4615-5913-9_3     Document Type: Review

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