Developmental and genetic disorders in spermatogenesis

Human Reproduction Update

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 120-140

  Diemer, T ^a,b   Desjardins, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS   (United States)

^b JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chromosomal aberrations; Infertility; Male sexual differentiation; Microdeletions; Testis

Indexed keywords

FOLLITROPIN; GONADORELIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE;

AUTOSOME; BARDET BIEDL SYNDROME; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CHROMOSOME MAP; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TRANSLOCATION; GENETIC DISORDER; GENOME; GERM CELL; HUMAN; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; KALLMANN SYNDROME; KARTAGENER SYNDROME; KLINEFELTER SYNDROME; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; MEDICAL ETHICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NOONAN SYNDROME; PHENOTYPE; PRADER WILLI SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOMBINANT DNA TECHNOLOGY; REVIEW; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTOSTERONE SYNTHESIS; X CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; Y CHROMOSOME LINKED DISORDER;

CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM DISEASES; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; KALLMANN SYNDROME; KLINEFELTER SYNDROME; MALE; PRADER-WILLI SYNDROME; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES; SEX CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; SPERMATOGENESIS;

EID: 0032903119     PISSN: 13554786     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humupd/5.2.120     Document Type: Review

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