Duplications of the AZFa region of the human Y chromosome are mediated by homologous recombination between HERVs and are compatible with male fertility

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 341-347

  Bosch, Elena ^a   Jobling, Mark A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZOOSPERMIA FACTOR A; CHROMOSOME PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; AZOOSPERMIA; CHROMOSOME DUPLICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FLANKING REGION; GENE DELETION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; HUMAN; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROVIRUS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TANDEM REPEAT; Y CHROMOSOME;

BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUSES; FERTILITY; GENE DUPLICATION; HUMANS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; RETROVIRIDAE PROTEINS; SEMINAL PLASMA PROTEINS;

UNIDENTIFIED RETROVIRUS;

EID: 0037320728     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddg031     Document Type: Article

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