An azoospermic man with a de novo point mutation in the Y-chromosomal gene USP9Y

Nature Genetics

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 429-432

  Sun, Chao ^a   Skaletsky, Helen ^a   Birren, Bruce ^b   Devon, Keri ^b   Tang, Zhaolan ^a   Silber, Sherman ^c   Oates, Robert ^d   Page, David C ^a  

^a HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^c ST LUKE S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AZOOSPERMIA; CASE REPORT; GENE DELETION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERMATOGENESIS; Y CHROMOSOME;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; HUMANS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OLIGOSPERMIA; PEDIGREE; PHYSICAL CHROMOSOME MAPPING; POINT MUTATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE DELETION; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS; VARIATION (GENETICS); Y CHROMOSOME;

RAPHIA FRATER;

EID: 0032727618     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/70539     Document Type: Article

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