Deletion of azoospermia factor a (AZFa) region of human Y chromosome caused by recombination between HERV15 proviruses

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 9, Issue 15, 2000, Pages 2291-2296

  Sun, Chao ^a,d   Skaletsky, Helen ^a   Rozen, Steve ^a   Gromol, Jörg ^b   Nieschlag, Eberhard ^a   Oates, Robert ^c   Page, David C ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b INST OF REPRO MED OF THE UNIV   (Germany)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d BIOGEN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ARTICLE; AZOOSPERMIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE DELETION; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROVIRUS; RETROVIRUS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SEQUENCE TAGGED SITE; VIRUS CLASSIFICATION; Y CHROMOSOME;

UNIDENTIFIED RETROVIRUS;

EID: 0034703178     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.hmg.a018920     Document Type: Article

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