Absence of deleted in azoospermia (DAZ) genes in spermatozoa of infertile men with somatic DAZ deletions

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 476-479

  Vries, Jan W A ^a,c   Repping, Sjoerd ^a   Oates, Robert ^b   Carson, Ronald ^a   Leschot, Nico J ^a   Veen, Fulco ^a  

^a ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c Reproductive Sciences Center   (United States)

Author keywords

AZFc; DAZ gene; Male infertility; Microdeletions; Spermatozoa; Testicular biopsy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AZOOSPERMIA; CHROMOSOME DELETION Y; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TESTIS BIOPSY;

DNA; GENE DELETION; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; OLIGOSPERMIA; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC; X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME;

EID: 0035109673     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0015-0282(00)01758-1     Document Type: Article

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