Genetic analysis of three polymorphic sites of the luteinizing hormone β-subunit gene in infertile Korean men with nonobstructive azoospermia

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 79, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 517-521

  Lee, Suman ^a   Kim, Nam Keun ^b   Kim, Hyun Joo ^a   Lee, Sook Hwan ^b   Jeong, Hye Jin ^b   Cha, Kwang Yul ^b  

^a CHA University   (South Korea)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Azoospermia; LH ; Male factor infertility; Polymorphism

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; FOLLITROPIN; GLYCINE; ISOLEUCINE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PROLACTIN; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; SERINE; TESTOSTERONE; THREONINE; TRYPTOPHAN;

ADULT; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; AZOOSPERMIA; BETA CHAIN; CHROMOSOME ARM; CHROMOSOME DELETION Y; CHROMOSOME MUTATION; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA POLYMORPHISM; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HETEROZYGOSITY; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMOZYGOSITY; HOMOZYGOTE; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; KARYOTYPE; KOREA; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; OLIGOSPERMIA; POLYMORPHIC LOCUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; Y CHROMOSOME;

EID: 0037336772     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0015-0282(02)04806-9     Document Type: Article

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