An exon map of the AZFc male infertility region of the human Y chromosome

Mammalian Genome

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 57-61

  Wong, Jason ^a   Blanco, Patricia ^a   Affara, Nabeel A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL DISORDER; EXON; GENE MAPPING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PSEUDOGENE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; Y CHROMOSOME;

BRAIN; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CONTIG MAPPING; EXONS; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; LIVER; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; OLIGOSPERMIA; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TESTIS; Y CHROMOSOME;

EID: 0032775464     PISSN: 09388990     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s003359900943     Document Type: Article

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