Estrogen receptor alpha gene polymorphism is associated with idiopathic azoospermia [7]

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 78, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1341-1343

  Suzuki, Yasuhiro ^a   Sasagawa, Isoji ^a   Itoh, Keiichi ^a   Ashida, Junko ^a   Muroya, Koji ^b   Ogata, Tsutomu ^b  

^a YAMAGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO ELECTRIC POWER COMPANY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE;

ADULT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; AZOOSPERMIA; CODON; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA POLYMORPHISM; DNA SEQUENCE; EXON; FISHER EXACT TEST; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; KARYOTYPE 46,XY; LETTER; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL LYMPHOCYTE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; SPERMATOGENESIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SUBFERTILITY; TESTIS BIOPSY; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

EID: 0036903463     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0015-0282(02)04267-X     Document Type: Article

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