CAG repeat length analysis and mutation screening of the androgen receptor gene in japanese men with idiopathic azoospermia

Journal of Andrology

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 804-808

  Sasagawa, Isoji ^a   Suzuki, Yasuhiro ^a   Ashida, Junko ^a   Nakada, Teruhiro ^a   Muroya, Koji ^b   Ogata, Tsutomu ^b  

^a YAMAGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KEIO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Kennedy disease; Male infertility; Sperm production; X chromosome

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN RECEPTOR;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AZOOSPERMIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOLLITROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; JAPAN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS BIOPSY; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL;

ADULT; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MUTATION; OLIGOSPERMIA; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE-STRANDED CONFORMATIONAL; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEATS;

EID: 0034858277     PISSN: 01963635     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/j.1939-4640.2001.tb02584.x     Document Type: Article

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