Debate: Is ICSI a genetic time bomb? Yes

Journal of Andrology

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 23-32

  Lamb, Dolores J ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CHROMOSOME DELETION; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC DISORDER; GENETIC MODEL; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HUMAN; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; MALE INFERTILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERMATOGENESIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0033035541     PISSN: 01963635     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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