Y-chromosome deletions in idiopathic severe testiculopathies

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 82, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 1075-1080

  Foresta, Carlo ^a,c   Ferlin, Alberto ^a   Garolla, Andrea ^a   Rossato, Marco ^a   Barbaux, Sandrine ^b   De Bortoli, Angelo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^c Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME DELETION Y; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; OLIGOSPERMIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS DISEASE;

EID: 0030904952     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jcem.82.4.3798     Document Type: Article

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