A putative human male infertility gene DAZLA: Genomic structure and methylation status

Molecular Human Reproduction

Volumn 3, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 705-708

  Chai, Ning Ning ^a   Phillips, Amy ^a   Fernandez, Ari ^a   Yen, Pauline H ^a  

^a HARBOR UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

DAZLA; Male infertility; Testis specific methylation

Indexed keywords

DAZL PROTEIN, HUMAN; PROTEIN; RNA BINDING PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 3; CHROMOSOME MAP; DNA METHYLATION; EXON; GENE LIBRARY; GENETICS; HUMAN; INTRON; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RESTRICTION MAPPING; Y CHROMOSOME;

BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 3; DNA METHYLATION; EXONS; GENOMIC LIBRARY; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; INTRONS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PROTEINS; RESTRICTION MAPPING; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; Y CHROMOSOME;

EID: 0031196472     PISSN: 13609947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molehr/3.8.705     Document Type: Article

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