Does intracytoplasmic sperm injection lead to a rise in the frequency of microdeletions in the AZFc region of the Y chromosome in future generations?

Human Reproduction

Volumn 13, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 2808-2811

  Kremer, Jan A M ^a   Tuerlings, Joep H A M ^a   Borm, George ^a   Hoefsloot, Lies H ^a   Meuleman, Eric J H ^a   Braat, Didi D M ^a   Brunner, Han G ^a   Merkus, Hans M W M ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

AZF; Future; ICSI; Microdeletion; Y chromosome

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME DELETION Y; GENE MUTATION; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MUTATION RATE;

EID: 0031756265     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/13.10.2808     Document Type: Article

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