Susceptibility to idiopathic azoospermia in Japanese men is linked to HLA class I antigen

Journal of Urology

Volumn 159, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1939-1941

  Miura, Hidenobu ^b   Tsujimura, Akira ^b   Nishimura, Kenji ^b   Kitamura, Masaya ^b   Kondoh, Nobuyuki ^b   Takeyama, Masami ^b   Fujioka, Hideki ^b   Sada, Masaharu ^b   Tsuji, Takayuki ^b   Matsumiya, Kiyomi ^b   Takahara, Shiro ^a   Okuyama, Akihiko ^b  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Fertility; Oligospermia; Testis

Indexed keywords

HLA ANTIGEN CLASS 1;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; AZOOSPERMIA; HLA SYSTEM; HUMAN; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SPERMATOGENESIS; Y CHROMOSOME;

EID: 0032439147     PISSN: 00225347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-5347(01)63202-6     Document Type: Article

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