Frequency of microdeletions in the azoospermia factor region of the Y-chromosome of New Zealand men

New Zealand Medical Journal

Volumn 113, Issue 1121, 2000, Pages 468-470

  Kerr, Natalie J ^c   Zhang, Jin ^c   Sin, Frank Y T ^b   Benny, Peter ^c   Sin, Iris L ^a  

^a New Zealand Ctr for Repro Medicine   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHROMOSOME DELETION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETICS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; NEW ZEALAND; OLIGOSPERMIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; SEQUENCE TAGGED SITE; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; Y CHROMOSOME;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHROMOSOME DELETION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC SCREENING; HUMANS; MALE; NEW ZEALAND; OLIGOSPERMIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE TAGGED SITES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPERM COUNT; SPERM MOTILITY; Y CHROMOSOME;

EID: 0034634499     PISSN: 00288446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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