Molecular genetic analysis of Y-chromosome microdeletions in men with severe spermatogenetic defects

Molekulyarnaya Biologiya

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 74-80

  Loginova, J A ^a,b   Nagornaya, I I ^a,b   Shlykova, S A ^b   Petrova, L I ^a   Rybakova, M V ^a   Kuznetsova, T V ^a   Baranov, V S ^a  

^a D O OTT RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF OBSTETRICS   (Russian Federation)

^b Ava Peter Russ Finnish Med Center   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; GENE DELETION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; GERM LINE; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; IMMATURITY; KARYOTYPING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROSCOPY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERM; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOGENETIC DEFECT; TESTIS FUNCTION; Y CHROMOSOME; ADULT; CYTOLOGY; GENETICS; MALE INFERTILITY; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; SPERMATOZOON COUNT;

AZF1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; DAZ1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; SEMINAL PLASMA PROTEIN;

ADULT; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; KARYOTYPING; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SEMEN; SEMINAL PLASMA PROTEINS; SEQUENCE DELETION; SPERM COUNT; SPERMATOGENESIS;

EID: 0037667679     PISSN: 00268984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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