Testicular CFTR splice variants in patients with congenital absence of the vas deferens

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 1739-1744

  Larriba, Sara ^b   Bassas, Lluis ^a   Gimenez, Javier ^b   Ramos, Maria D ^b   Segura, Ana ^a   Nunes, Virginia ^b   Estivill, Xavier ^b   Casals, Teresa ^b  

^a FUNDACIÓ PUIGVERT   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL DURAN I REYNALS   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; TRANSMEMBRANE CONDUCTANCE REGULATOR;

AGENESIS; ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MALE GENITAL TRACT MALFORMATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS; TESTIS BIOPSY; VAS DEFERENS;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; CYSTIC FIBROSIS TRANSMEMBRANE CONDUCTANCE REGULATOR; HUMANS; MALE; MUTATION; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS; VARIATION (GENETICS); VAS DEFERENS;

EID: 0031660122     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/7.11.1739     Document Type: Article

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