Cytogenetic and Y chromosome microdeletion screening of a random group of infertile males

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 301-307

  Quilter, Claire R ^a,b   Svennevik, Elizabeth C ^a   Serhal, Paul ^a   Ralph, David ^a   Bahadur, Gulam ^a   Stanhope, Richard ^a   Sütterlin, Marc ^a,c   Delhanty, Joy D A ^a   Taylor, Kay E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chromosome abnormalities; ICSI; Male factor infertility; Random patients; Y chromosome deletions

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AZOOSPERMIA; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CHEEK; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CHROMOSOME DELETION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOGENETICS; EUCHROMATIN; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENETIC SCREENING; HUMAN; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; KARYOTYPING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; OLIGOSPERMIA; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; Y CHROMOSOME;

EID: 0037309285     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0015-0282(02)04692-7     Document Type: Article

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