Selected genetic factors associated with male infertility

Human Reproduction Update

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 183-198

  Huynh, Trieu ^a   Mollard, Richard ^a   Trounson, Alan ^a  

^a HUDSON INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

Author keywords

Chromosomal abnormalities; Cystic fibrosis and congenital absence of the vas deferens; Male infertility; Spermatogenic function; Y microdeletions

Indexed keywords

GONADOTROPIN; PROTEIN BCL 2; STEM CELL FACTOR; STEM CELL FACTOR RECEPTOR;

AGENESIS; APOPTOSIS; AUTOSOME ABERRATION; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CHROMOSOME DELETION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; FERTILITY; GENETIC DISORDER; GENETIC REGULATION; GONADOTROPIN RELEASE; HEREDITY; HUMAN; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; MALE STERILITY; MEIOSIS; MOUSE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR BINDING; REVIEW; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOGONIUM; SPERMATOZOON; VAS DEFERENS; Y CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; GENE DELETION; GONADOTROPINS; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; SEX CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; SPERMATOGENESIS; VAS DEFERENS; Y CHROMOSOME;

EID: 0036232845     PISSN: 13554786     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humupd/8.2.183     Document Type: Review

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