Significance of mutations in the androgen receptor gene in males with idiopathic infertility

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 85, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 2810-2815

  Hiort, Olaf ^a   Holterhus, Paul Martin ^a   Horter, Thorsten ^c   Schulze, Wolfgang ^d   Kremke, Britta ^a   Bals Pratsch, Monika ^a   Sinnecker, Gernot H G ^b   Kruse, Klaus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

^b City Hospital Wolfsburg   (Germany)

^c Altonaer Kinderkrankenhaus   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN RECEPTOR;

ADULT; ANDROGEN INSENSITIVITY SYNDROME; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC CODE; GONADOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; HORMONE BINDING; HUMAN; INFERTILITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; VIRILIZATION;

ADULT; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; DNA; EXONS; FERTILITY; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; INTRONS; LEUKOCYTES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POINT MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 0034458405     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.85.8.2810     Document Type: Article

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