Relation between the anatomical genital phenotype and cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator gene mutations in the absence of the vas deferens

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 77, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 889-896

  Robert, François ^a   Bey Omar, Faza ^b   Rollet, Jacques ^a   Lapray, Jean François ^c   Morel, Yves ^b  

^a Inst Rhonalpin Etud la Repro Hum   (France)

^b HÔPITAL DEBROUSSE   (France)

^c Cabinet de Radiologie et d'Echographie   (France)

Author keywords

Azoospermia; CFTR gene; Male infertility; Vas deferens

Indexed keywords

TRANSMEMBRANE CONDUCTANCE REGULATOR;

AGENESIS; ALLELE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; EPIDIDYMIS DISEASE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; INTRON; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCROTUM; SEMINAL VESICLE DISEASE; TESTIS SIZE; TRANSRECTAL ULTRASONOGRAPHY; UROGENITAL SYSTEM; VAS DEFERENS;

CYSTIC FIBROSIS TRANSMEMBRANE CONDUCTANCE REGULATOR; GENITALIA, MALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TESTIS; VAS DEFERENS;

EID: 0036252580     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0015-0282(02)02954-0     Document Type: Article

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