Genetic dissection of mammalian fertility pathways

Nature Medicine

Volumn 8, Issue 10 SUPPL., 2002, Pages

  Matzuk, Martin M ^a   Lamb, Dolores J ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; FOLLITROPIN; GONADORELIN; HORMONE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; THYROTROPIN;

FEMALE FERTILITY; FERTILITY; GENE ISOLATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOME; GERM LINE; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HUMAN; INFERTILITY; MALE INFERTILITY; MAMMAL; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; OVARY FOLLICLE DEVELOPMENT; PATHOGENESIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; REVIEW; SEXUAL MATURATION; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON MIGRATION; TESTIS DESCENT; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; MALE; MOUSE; REPRODUCTION;

MAMMALIA;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MEIOSIS; MICE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; REPRODUCTION; SPERMATOGENESIS;

EID: 0036798824     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nm-fertilitys41     Document Type: Review

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