Association of a single-nucleotide polymorphism of the deleted-in-azoospermia-like gene with susceptibility to spermatogenic failure

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 87, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 5258-5264

  Teng, Yen Ni ^a,b,c,d,e   Lin, Yung Ming ^a,b,c,d,e   Lin, Ying Hung ^a,b,c,d,e   Tsao, Shu Yi ^a,b,c,d,e   Hsu, Chao Chin ^a,b,c,d,e   Lin, Shio Jean ^a,b,c,d,e   Tsai, Wan Ching ^a,b,c,d,e   Kuo, Pao Lin ^a,b,c,d,e,f  

^a CHIA NAN UNIVERSITY OF PHARMACY AND SCIENCE   (Taiwan)

^b Departments of Urology   (Taiwan)

^c Department of Medicine ^*  (Taiwan)

^d NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^e Taiwan United Birth Promoting Experts   (Taiwan)

^f NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GENOMIC DNA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AZOOSPERMIA; GENE DELETION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SERTOLI CELL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS;

ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; GENE DELETION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE-STRANDED CONFORMATIONAL; PROTEINS; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPERMATOGENESIS; TAIWAN; Y CHROMOSOME;

EID: 0036847112     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.2002-020016     Document Type: Article

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