Defining regions of the Y-chromosome responsible for male infertility and identification of a fourth AZF region (AZFd) by Y-chromosome microdeletion detection

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 27-41

  Kent First, M ^a,h   Muallem, A ^a   Shultz, J ^a   Pryor, J ^b,g   Roberts, K ^b,g   Nolten, W ^c   Meisner, L ^d   Chandley, A ^e   Gouchy, G ^f   Jorgensen, L ^f   Havighurst, T ^c   Grosch, J ^a  

^a PROMEGA CORPORATION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^d WISCONSIN STATE LABORATORY OF HYGIENE   (United States)

^e WESTERN GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^f AMERICAN RED CROSS   (United States)

^g Reproductive Health Associates   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

AZFa; AZFb; AZFc; AZFd; Male infertility; Polymorphic STSs; Y chromosome microdeletions

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AZOOSPERMIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA POLYMORPHISM; GENE DELETION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SERTOLI CELL; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; Y CHROMOSOME;

FEMALE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; OLIGOSPERMIA; PHENOTYPE; SEQUENCE DELETION; SEQUENCE TAGGED SITES; Y CHROMOSOME;

EID: 0032924325     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2795(199905)53:1<27::AID-MRD4>3.0.CO;2-W     Document Type: Article

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