CFTR gene mutations and male infertility

Andrologia

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 71-83

  Stuhrmann, Manfred ^a,b   Dork T ^a  

^a Inst fur Humangenetik der Medizini   (Germany)

^b HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Congenital bilateral absence of the vas deferens (CBAVD); Cystic fibrosis; Cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR); Mutation analysis; Obstructive azoospermia

Indexed keywords

TRANSMEMBRANE CONDUCTANCE REGULATOR;

AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE DISORDER; AZOOSPERMIA; CHRONIC LUNG DISEASE; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC COUNSELING; HUMAN; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; PANCREAS INSUFFICIENCY; PANCREAS SECRETION; REVIEW;

CYSTIC FIBROSIS; CYSTIC FIBROSIS TRANSMEMBRANE CONDUCTANCE REGULATOR; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MUTATION; SPERMATOGENESIS; VAS DEFERENS;

EID: 0034035576     PISSN: 03034569     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1439-0272.2000.00327.x     Document Type: Review

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