Linkage between male infertility and trinucleotide repeat expansion in the androgen-receptor gene

Lancet

Volumn 354, Issue 9179, 1999, Pages 640-643

  Dowsing, Aneta T ^a   Yong, E L ^b   Clark, Malcolm ^a   McLachlan, Robert I ^a   De Kretser, David M ^a   Trounson, Alan O ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; DNA; FOLLITROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AZOOSPERMIA; BLOOD SAMPLING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; FOLLITROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; GENE; HUMAN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; OLIGOSPERMIA; POINT MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT;

EID: 0033592186     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(98)08413-X     Document Type: Article

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