Can mitochondrial DNA mutations cause sperm dysfunction?

Molecular Human Reproduction

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 719-721

  Spiropoulos, John ^a   Turnbull, Douglass M ^a   Chinnery, Patrick F ^a,b  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Infertility; MELAS; Mitochondrial encephalomyopathy; mtDNA; Sperm

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERM; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; GENETICS; MITOCHONDRION; SPERMATOZOON;

DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; HUMANS; MALE; MITOCHONDRIA; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 0035995241     PISSN: 13609947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molehr/8.8.719     Document Type: Article

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