A nation-based population screening for azoospermia factor deletions in Greek-Cypriot patients with severe spermatogenic failure and normal fertile controls, using a specific study and experimental design

International Journal of Andrology

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 153-158

  Ioulianos, A ^a   Sismani, C ^a   Fourouclas, N ^a   Patroclou, T ^b   Sergiou, C ^c   Patsalis, P C ^a  

^a CYPRUS INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGY AND GENETICS   (Cyprus)

^b Patroclou Gynecologic and Obstetric Clinic   (Cyprus)

^c Fertility Center (CFC)   (Cyprus)

Author keywords

Azoospermia factor; Male infertility; Y chromosome microdeletions

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ARTICLE; AZOOSPERMIA; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CHROMOSOME DELETION Y; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYPRUS; DATA ANALYSIS; DNA ISOLATION; ETHNOLOGY; FERTILITY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GEOGRAPHY; GREECE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; KARYOTYPE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; OLIGOSPERMIA; PATIENT SELECTION; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIGION; SAMPLING; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERMATOGENESIS; STANDARD; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHROMOSOME DELETION; CYPRUS; GENE DELETION; GREECE; HUMANS; MALE; OLIGOSPERMIA; RESEARCH DESIGN; SEMINAL PLASMA PROTEINS; SEQUENCE TAGGED SITES; SPERMATOGENESIS; Y CHROMOSOME;

EID: 0036275419     PISSN: 01056263     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2605.2002.00340.x     Document Type: Article

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