Screening for Y chromosome microdeletions in 226 Slovenian subfertile men

Human Reproduction

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 17-24

  Peterlin, B ^a   Kunej, T ^a   Sinkovec, J ^a   Gligorievska, N ^a   Zorn, B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTRE LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Azoospermia; ICSI; Male infertility; Oligozoospermia; Y chromosome microdeletions

Indexed keywords

BUSERELIN; BUSERELIN ACETATE; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; FOLLITROPIN; HUMAN MENOPAUSAL GONADOTROPIN; METRODIN HP 75; UROFOLLITROPIN;

ARTICLE; AZOOSPERMIA; CHROMOSOME DELETION Y; CHROMOSOME MUTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FERTILIZATION; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FOLLITROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE DELETION; GENETIC SCREENING; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; MICROPARTICLE ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; MORBIDITY; OLIGOSPERMIA; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; OVULATION INDUCTION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREGNANCY RATE; PROGNOSIS; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE TAGGED SITE; SLOVENIA; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SUBFERTILITY; TESTIS WEIGHT; Y CHROMOSOME;

EID: 0036163862     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/17.1.17     Document Type: Article

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