CAG repeat length in the androgen receptor gene of infertile Japanese males with oligozoospermia

Molecular Human Reproduction

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 14-16

  Komori, Shinji ^a   Kasumi, Hiroyuki ^a   Kanazawa, Ri Ichiro ^a   Sakata, Kazuko ^a   Nakata, Yuko ^a   Kato, Hiroshi ^b   Koyama, Koji ^a  

^a HYOGO COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Department of Surgery   (Japan)

Author keywords

Androgen receptor; CAG repeat; Oligozoospermia

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN RECEPTOR;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE ISOLATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OLIGOSPERMIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR GENE; SPERMATOGENESIS;

ADULT; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OLIGOSPERMIA; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEATS;

EID: 0032956610     PISSN: 13609947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molehr/5.1.14     Document Type: Article

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