Single nucleotide polymorphisms in the protamine-1 and -2 genes of fertile and infertile human male populations

Molecular Human Reproduction

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 69-73

  Tanaka, Hiromitsu ^a   Miyagawa, Yasushi ^a,b   Tsujimura, Akira ^b   Matsumiya, Kiyomi ^b   Okuyama, Akihiko ^b   Nishimune, Yoshitake ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Male infertility; Mutation; Protamine; SNPs; Sperm

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; PROTAMINE;

ADULT; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA PACKAGING; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HAPLOTYPE; HETEROZYGOSITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; INTRON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; MALE INFERTILITY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SPERMATOZOON; STOP CODON; TRANSLATION REGULATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; FERTILITY; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PROTAMINES; SPERMATOGENESIS;

EID: 0037291314     PISSN: 13609947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molehr/gag010     Document Type: Article

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