Advances in Y chromosome mapping

Current Opinion in Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 275-281

  Yen, Pauline H ^a  

^a HARBOR UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BONE DEVELOPMENT; CELL FUNCTION; CHROMOSOME MAP; CHROMOSOME POLYMORPHISM; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; EVOLUTION; GENE DELETION; GENE LOCUS; HUMAN; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DETERMINATION; SPERMATOGENESIS; TOOTH DEVELOPMENT; Y CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; EVOLUTION; GENE DELETION; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; PHENOTYPE; SEX CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; SEX DETERMINATION (GENETICS); SPERMATOGENESIS; VARIATION (GENETICS); Y CHROMOSOME;

EID: 0032832880     PISSN: 1040872X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001703-199906000-00008     Document Type: Article

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