Human chromosome deletions in Yq11, AZF candidate genes and male infertility: History and update

Molecular Human Reproduction

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 739-744

  Vogt, Peter H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b Im Neuenheimer Feld 400   (Germany)

Author keywords

AZF and Yq11 deletions; AZF diagnostics; AZFa, AZFb, AZFc regions; Idiopathic oligo and azoospermia; Polymorphic STS loci

Indexed keywords

AZOOSPERMIA; CHROMOSOME DELETION Y; CHROMOSOME YQ; GENE DELETION; GENE ISOLATION; HUMAN; MALE INFERTILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPERMATOGENESIS;

EID: 0031871643     PISSN: 13609947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molehr/4.8.739     Document Type: Review

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