Y-autosome translocation and infertility: Usefulness of molecular, cytogenetic and meiotic studies

Human Genetics

Volumn 102, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 98-102

  Delobel, Bruno ^a   Djlelati, Ratib ^b   Gabriel Robez, Odette ^b   Croquette, Marie Françoise ^a   Rousseaux Prevost, Roselyne ^c   Rousseaux, Jean ^c   Rigot, Jean Marc ^d   Rumpler, Yves ^b  

^a HÔPITAL SAINT ANTOINE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^c Institut de Recherche sur le Cancer de Lille   (France)

^d LILLE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOSOME; CASE REPORT; CHROMOSOME; CHROMOSOME BANDING PATTERN; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION 6; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION Y; CYTOGENETICS; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; MEIOSIS; MITOSIS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; OLIGOSPERMIA; PACHYTENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECIPROCAL CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; SPERMATOCYTE; SYNAPTONEMAL COMPLEX;

ADULT; CHROMOSOME DELETION; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MEIOSIS; SPERMATOCYTES; TRANSLOCATION, GENETIC; Y CHROMOSOME;

EID: 0031922843     PISSN: 03406717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004390050660     Document Type: Article

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