High incidence of single nucleotide substitutions in the mitochondrial genome is associated with poor semen parameters in men

International Journal of Andrology

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 175-182

  Holyoake, A J ^a,d   McHugh, P ^a   Wu, M ^a   O'Carroll, S ^a   Benny, P ^a,b,c   Sin, I L ^a,b,c   Sin, F Y T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

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

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Diseases; Fertility; Human; mtDNA; Mutations; Polymorphism

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE MUTATION; GENOME; HUMAN; HYDROPHOBICITY; MALE; MITOCHONDRION; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY;

DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; POINT MUTATION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE-STRANDED CONFORMATIONAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPERM COUNT; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERMATOZOA; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 0035012777     PISSN: 01056263     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2605.2001.00292.x     Document Type: Article

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