Genetics and male infertility

Current Opinion in Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 207-219

  Hargreave, Timothy B ^a  

^a WESTERN GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOSOME; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CHROMOSOME MOSAICISM; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DNA DAMAGE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GENE DELETION; GENE LOCATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC DISORDER; GERM LINE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; KALLMANN SYNDROME; KLINEFELTER SYNDROME; MALE FERTILITY; MALE INFERTILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEX CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; SPERMATOGENESIS; X CHROMOSOMAL INHERITANCE; Y CHROMATIN;

CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; CHROMOSOME DISORDERS; GENETIC COUNSELING; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC;

EID: 0034435916     PISSN: 1040872X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001703-200006000-00008     Document Type: Review

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